Berating

Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes.

Howard Jacobson speaks his mind Not a sheep 2009

Berating myself, cursing my laziness or my lack of inborn talent – all, alas, useless.

2010 February « 2010

Berating myself, cursing my laziness or my lack of inborn talent – all, alas, useless.

Get Unstuck « 2010

Berating people for revealing private prejudices in public, for picking on someone less than their own size, for making out-of-order gags… PC became so central to the nation's conversation with itself that I started collecting articles.

Being PC in this day and age 2012

Berating myself, I disassembled the rifle and packed it away.

No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

Berating myself, I disassembled the rifle and packed it away.

No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

Berating the pendulous night, horizon awash with crystals, pheromone vapor wafting its scarcely defined spaces, soul crowing opacity, I visited the ruins my aspiration.

VII Kyle Muntz 2010

Berating himself for being an oaf he let her go, arms springing apart, but before he could apologize her fingers clutched his beard.

Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 7: A Crown of Swords (1994) Adam Roberts 2010

Berating himself for being an oaf he let her go, arms springing apart, but before he could apologize her fingers clutched his beard.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes.

A requiem for British decency 2009