jeremiad|jeremiads in English

noun

[jer·e·mi·ad || ‚dʒerɪ'maɪəd]

lamentation, sorrowful complaint

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1. Two critics who call the book a "Jeremiad" ultimately gave it a positive review.

2. Wrote a self-defeating Jeremiad about his employer, the U.N., back in 2010.

3. It was an unbroken chain of steadily growing outward and inward difficulties, a genuine "Jeremiad".

4. Siegel's book is a jeremiad against the ills the Internet has visited upon our lives .

5. t's been 41 years since Paul Ehrlich predicted imminent mass starvation, in his 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb.

6. It's been 41 years since Paul Ehrlich predicted imminent mass starvation, in his 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb.

7. This environmental jeremiad is more precisely about how democracy cannot solve the interrelated environmental and population crises in which we are enmeshed.

8. Even at the age of twenty-six, I expressed the suspicions that their nature had aroused in me" ( Third Jeremiad)."

9. While she departs from the jeremiad tradition in describing professors as simply doing their jobs as best as they can, she fails to tell us what those jobs really are—or why they are worth doing.

10. Employing an Aphoristic, almost Nietzschean, style of prose, Charlton issues a jeremiad against "political correctness," which he identifies as a product of the left (whether socialists, communists, liberals, etc.) but as also currently infecting the center and the right, perpetuated by the mass media and an intellectual elite and representing a "triumph of the left" that threatens to unravel modernity itself.