Word: slaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither are sentences that telescope years into months. "That six months I served, that was a slap on the wrist," says Woodley, who turned himself around without going to prison. "If you get three years, you should do three years." At the same time, the jailers know that prisoners need incentives for good behavior. Florida's Singletary favors 75% sentences for those of the 53,000 prisoners in his system who "work off" days by doing construction work, cleaning parks and performing other outside tasks. It not only lessens tension within the prison but also addresses the problem of idleness...
...Slap down a huge cash deposit, rush round immediately to see the previous tenant in hospital, and after her death, entertain yourself by dressing up in her clothes, complete with full make up and wig (by the way, you're male...
...poem is vintage Tokio Rose: like a slap in the face--stinging-hot but strangely cool. Its power lies in the bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...
...director was looking for "an actress who in her own personality had some of the feisty, slightly abrasive elements of Joy Gresham. I knew of Debra's 'difficult' reputation -- of being quite a girl, as we say at home. So I said, 'I don't mind if you slap me around the head -- if at the end of the day what appears on the screen is what we all want.' And of course what happened was that she absolutely came up with the goods...
...incident in the workplace. That was the seed, and then Crichton cogitated, watered it as you would a Ficus, which seems to be his method. The result is provocative, which seems to be his pattern. To read it in this charged climate makes a man want to holler, "Slap leather, boys, and head for that line of trees!" Acknowledges Crichton: "It has been suggested that now is the time for that long-postponed trip to the Australian outback." Instead he is bracing for the criticism that trails his books like gulls after a trawler...