A jeremiad against any form of government. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The expectation of jeremiad is so deeply ingrained in Americans’ political consciousness that it might seem to be universal. From Wordnik.com. [How America Can Rise Again] Reference
"The Great Gatsby" is a kind of jeremiad (as any student of Bercovitch's will tell you). From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
We ignore their most recent jeremiad at our peril. From Wordnik.com. [Actually, The Database Is God] Reference
And so we are asked to take this jeremiad on faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Knowledge Deficit] Reference
Part jeremiad on the miseries of the past eight years. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Gets Serious] Reference
But this clumsily made jeremiad seemed tame and old hat. From Wordnik.com. [TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2004] Reference
And Life, Inc. is not just a jeremiad; Rushkoff has a plan. From Wordnik.com. [Life, Inc: Tripping the Corporatism Fantastic with Douglas Rushkoff] Reference
A jeremiad is any long lamentation or angry denunciation. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremiah] Reference
Hugh Kenner, the aseptic critic, let out a full-throated jeremiad. From Wordnik.com. [Aweigh] Reference
The response to my efforts can be seen in Dr. Wills's bizarre jeremiad. From Wordnik.com. [Priests and Boys: An Exchange] Reference
Tolson, Melvin B., film critic, anti – Gone With the Wind jeremiad of, 114. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
U.S. officials have since depicted Guan's three-minute jeremiad as an anomaly. From Wordnik.com. [In Chinese admiral's outburst, a lingering distrust of U.S.] Reference
This jeremiad was repeated by Mother and chorused by the rest till Laura grew incensed. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
You'd never know from the Levin jeremiad that these are legal -- not policy -- documents. From Wordnik.com. [The Real 'Torture' Disgrace] Reference
And his bizarre anti-science jeremiad on the autism-vaccine story is pretty embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [Part of the way with CBK!] Reference
For example, the Business Week review by Chris Farrell, "ugly jeremiad," he called this book. From Wordnik.com. [Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster] Reference
Instead of "Americans", I think he meant to put the word "Moslems" at the end of his little jeremiad. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
The other book-within-a-book is a shopworn jeremiad lamenting the current state of American politics. From Wordnik.com. [Wheeler-Dealers in Washington] Reference
This jeremiad at the end echoes my call for redefining what it means to be a professional in the field. From Wordnik.com. [September 2005] Reference
Of course, by skipping a balanced analysis in favor of a bracing jeremiad, Fallows misses some subtleties. From Wordnik.com. [Sizzle Over Substance] Reference
It is enough to remind ourselves of the nature of the great, national, hundred per cent American jeremiad. From Wordnik.com. [Are Cities Dead?] Reference
"Africa's moral and cultural dysfunctions loom as large as its material problems in this wide-ranging jeremiad.". From Wordnik.com. [The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai: Book summary] Reference
Jacobs's book is generally regarded as a jeremiad in opposition to the large-scale planning of the '50s and' 60s. From Wordnik.com. [Enough With Jane Jacobs Already] Reference
It was the chance to deliver, in prime time, a stirring jeremiad on the shortcomings of the president's leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Whew!] Reference
In its theme and sensibility, its eerie passivity and suppressed anguish, it is, I suppose, a jeremiad at half-mast. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremiads at Half-Mast] Reference
At this point, you may suspect that I have swung from one American genre, the jeremiad, to another, utopian enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Google & the Future of Books] Reference
In the long rhythms of American jeremiad, he said, that was a sign of political health, despite the excesses of those times. From Wordnik.com. [How America Can Rise Again] Reference
While the Puritan jeremiad has a long American legacy, the contemporary version first showed up during the Carter administration. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Souder and an American tradition: moralize, scandalize, apologize] Reference
Pacifica Radio's high priestess of political correctness (and her brother) cash in on her cult status with a cut-and-paste jeremiad. From Wordnik.com. [Rote From Underground] Reference
“The jeremiad played a central role in the war of independence, and the war in turn confirmed the jeremiad as a national ritual.”. From Wordnik.com. [How America Can Rise Again] Reference
The suspense builds as Polman's jeremiad approaches its lively closing glossary, "Aidspeak," complete with an entry on "Bono and Bob.". From Wordnik.com. [Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell?] Reference
“This is an invasion, the greatest invasion in history,” writes Patrick J. Buchanan in his latest jeremiad, “State of Emergency.”. From Wordnik.com. [Stopping the Census Clock] Reference
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