jeremiad

How To Use jeremiad In A Sentence

• The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
• They differ in almost every other respect, but in these shared interests they both belong to the ancient and always fascinating genre of the jeremiad.
• Keillor’s jeremiad is wrong on so many levels, and proceeds from a place of such monumental self-regard and fundamental misinformation, that a proper rebuttal would require an entire afternoon and a minimum of ten double-spaced pages. Publishing vs. that guy with the voice I can’t stand
• The other is what historians call the bracing “jeremiad” tradition of harsh warnings that reveal a faith that America can be better than it is. How America Can Rise Again
• Mark's posting on Camille Paglia's charges of decline in attention is right on the mark - this is just an antique jeremiad in new packaging.
• Eminem may fit into that tradition of lyrical catharsis and boulevard jeremiads, but he certainly didn't create it.
• Their jeremiads yearn for an airbrushed 50's America that never really existed.
• It is compelled to confess the recent advance of evangelical doctrines in the German mind, but sees only evil in the fact, and utters this jeremiade: "This church sentiment, which has seized upon the whole of the _noblesse_ in North History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
• Graff assembles other quotations in the same vein, and goes on to add, wryly, ‘The funny thing, of course, is that those jeremiads were right.’
• Indeed, there is not only irony but danger in offering such a public jeremiad against jeremiads.