1. Given even the simplest task - drilling a hole in a plate of aluminum - the slap managed to ruin both
the drill bit and the plate.
2. Didn't you overhear him the other day?
That slap was telling the new students that it's impossible for steel to fatigue, even though the sample had a textbook fatigue failure. Didn't that guy fail Material Science?
3.
The slap's attempts to communicate with his neighbors were awkward and ineffective.