Hibbard battered himself into an early substitution and when he came off the field the physios struggled to decide which part of his upper body to ice first.
Ten days later, he ripped his clothes off his back, ran out naked into the street near his San Diego home, slammed his hands repeatedly on to the pavement, battered himself against parked cars, and screamed obscenities until he was eventually led away by police.
With Sky lacking in experienced riders, depleted and battered, Froome himself has been taking risks – for example, using one rider, Stannard as his lone wingman in the finales, rather than the usual three or four.
"I won't say Graeme was the most technically correct batter himself but he's got good knowhow about Test cricket and that's what it's about, having a feel for the game".
With renewed self-confidence we can take on and take apart a Prime Minister who calls himself "battered".
Physically powerful, he finds himself battered by moral forces, social restrictions, assumptions about class and knowing your place.
Shane Donald, battered and childlike himself, definitely had a cruel hand in the torture killing of one high school girl in 1989, and he might very well be involved in current disappearances of other teenage girls.
He acknowledged that Avatar shares themes with the films At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Emerald Forest, and Princess Mononoke, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations, and with Dances with Wolves, where a battered soldier finds himself drawn to the culture he was initially fighting against.
It is dangerous folly to argue that the referee should allow a fighter to continue hitting an opponent to the extent that he himself had earlier been battered.
And even if he did hang himself, why is he all battered, why is his face covered in burns?
By channeling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, in all his blustering arrogance, Ed Harris makes himself the perfect target for multiplex audiences battered by the economy.
