Sharon Salzberg

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

American Author

Seth Shostak

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

American Scientist

Andrea Pirlo

I'd have considered myself fortunate to be coached by Guardiola because he really puts his stamp on teams. He builds them, moulds them, guides them, berates them, nurtures them. He makes them great. He takes them to a higher level; a place beyond mere football.

Italian Athlete

James Haven

I don't want to constantly berate my father - I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace - but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children.

American Actor

Dominique Moceanu

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

American Athlete

Sandra E. Peterson

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

American Businesswoman

M. J. Rose

Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

Karen Finerman

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Roland Joffe

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

English Director

Sean Evans

Patrons, don't berate bouncers for denying you entry.

American Entertainer

Berate conveys a sense of intense criticism, often implying disappointment or disapproval rather than just pointing out mistakes.

Strong Disapproval

Berate is often used to describe a situation where the speaker's emotions are strongly involved, usually anger or frustration.

Emotional Intensity

Use 'berate' in contexts where there's an imbalance of power, like a boss to an employee, or a parent to a child.

Power Dynamics

 dishonored and defiled the home people pray here he said you're bringing these people here to do these things he called up other uncle's who came to the house sat me down surrounded me and berated me over and over making me feel so guilty

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 all fear of anything and are constantly berating the kitchen staff and kind of causing havoc by trying to jump in and grab food and in fact they even grabbing foods right off tables in front of people I think yesterday afternoon

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 She berated Arachne in public— how dare the weaver claim herself greater than the gods? But Arachne only laughed, barely looking up from her loom. Provoked, the old woman threw off her cloak to reveal her true form.

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 and started berating me. My first thought was to protect Beena and her family, and also myself. I tried to appear calm, although I was scared. The men said they thought I was there