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He recently turned 40 and has been teetotal for the past few years, so the chances of seeing him berate audiences and swig Jack Daniels from the bottle while playing guitar (I saw him do just that a dozen years ago) are perhaps slim at best.

YOUR columnist Ivor Wynne Jones berates me for using my doctorate.

And what kind of person runs up to someone who has just put a penalty over the bar and berates him?

"Anybody who berates Swansea City in any way is wrong.

Later, Jack Warner (played by this film's director, Mark Rydell) berates Dean for saying, "I'm not a homosexual.

He berates Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop in South Africa, for his recent TV ad that concludes "Please wear a condom" as an insult to Christ.

In yet another, Leary berates a boy's enthusiasm for making friends over the web because the boy doesn't appreciate how much his parents had to pay for the computer, nor does he understand that the main purpose of computers is to maximize profits.

He berates those who chose to misread Hogarth as the first functionalist or a defender of rococo.