John Ortberg

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

American Clergyman

Jim Morrison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

American Singer

James Vincent McMorrow

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

Irish Musician

Jack Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

American Novelist

Rick Allen

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

Musician

Owen Jones

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

British Journalist

Clive Lewis

Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.

Christy Mathewson

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

American Athlete

Owen Farrell

You don't really get fly-halves battering each other.

English Athlete

George Herman

American Journalist

Used to imply strong, repeated force causing damage or injury.

Severe Force

Can indicate violence against another person, often in domestic contexts.

Physical Violence

Carries a heavy emotional connotation when referring to abuse.

Emotional Weight

Often used in cooking to describe a semi-liquid mixture for certain recipes.

Culinary Context

The texture of the batter affects the final dish, e.g., lumpy or smooth.

Consistency Matters

In sports, 'batter' refers to a position with a specific role during the game.

Specific Role

Describes a player in action within a baseball or cricket game.

In-Play Action

Used metaphorically to describe nature's impact, like storms or waves.

Natural Forces

Implies a weakening or wearing down effect through repeated force.

Damaging Effect

 and standing with women and not against them and pretending that somehow this is a battle between the sexes and other kinds of nonsense. We live in the world together. And by the way, one of the things that really bothers me about some of the rhetoric against feminists and others who have built the battered women's and rape crisis movements around the world

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 the world for storm watching and that you can see you've got this wave vatted Pacific West Coast and then there's rainforest coated mountains that drop straight down to the shoreline it's not tropical rainforest it's temperate rainforest and you know it's incredibly green incredibly luscious and behind that wave battered front line is this

A Quest to Find Canada’s...

 battered by all the kinds of things that have been discussed here and yet a hope that was so resilient I hope that that was so powerful that left a kernel of optimism and that has that has been an engine in the passion and in the mission that has been my life's work which is

WorldSpace: The world’s...

 And when that failed, when we realized we were still brutalized and battered, we had to let the world know that our lives still mattered. Now, when technology allows more video of our pain and struggle to be broadcast to the world, we wonder, like, what is next?

The story we tell about...

 pulled the key out of the car ignition as I drove down the highway, poured coffee grinds on my head as I dressed for a job interview, I never once thought of myself as a battered wife. Instead, I was a very strong woman in love with a deeply troubled man,

Why domestic violence...

 coral reefs have been taking a battering you might say they've been suffering a lot from climate change already it's how important is it that we protect the reef and preserve the ecosystem it's down there actually I believe that the

Incredible Life in the...

 but at the age of eight, I was bequeathed a guitar. It was a battered old thing with five rusty strings, and was out of tune, but quickly I learned to play it and realized that I'd found a friend for life,

Sting: How I started...

 The strangers watched intently as Baucis nestled twigs under a battered pot filled with vegetables. The couple could rarely afford meat, but in honor of their guests,

The myth of Zeus' test -...

 two layers of skull protect their brains the fight lasts for hours each Ram battering the other dozens of times

Big Horn Bash PIPE Untamed...

 he gets his battered baby back nothing is more important than the safety of your young

Batter