And Huntsman's endorsement of McCain over him during the last Republican primary felt like a deliberate slap.

Nevertheless, nothing done in the past equals the deliberate slap in the face the New York State Court of Appeals has just given working and middle-class families.

Excluding the battalion representatives was a deliberate slap in the face to the airborne colonel.

It was best interpreted as a symbolic, deliberate slap in the face for the Apple corporate hierarchy.

In what was seen here as a deliberate slap at Colombia, Americans abruptly canceled all the meetings after General Vargas had arrived in Washington.

The move was outrageous, a deliberate slap in the face of News.

He gave it a short deliberate slap to settle the cards, the first of which showed its semicircular pale pink tongue through the slanting aluminium mouth of the shoe.

He used the diminutive as a deliberate slap in the face to Zapilote.

It was a deliberate slap in the face, but rather than allow herself to feel humiliation she resolved to use this maneuver to her own advantage.

Another deliberate slap in the face, for all who had gone before her had worked directly with the sensei.