How to Use jeremiad in a Sentence

jeremiad

noun
  • The piece is a jeremiad against good taste and Hollywood conservatism.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • What these scholars offer is not a dense political tome but a lively jeremiad.
    — David Hawpe, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2018
  • This slim book on the legacies of colonialism has been described variously as a jeremiad and a mock travel guide.
    — Bo Seo, The Atlantic, 1 June 2022
  • After this jeremiad for a nation in crisis, one wonders how Osnos can possibly suggest a way out.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Or an art of jeremiads, that compels us to confront our failings without escape or excuses?
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Buchanan went before a nationwide audience and delivered a startling jeremiad.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 July 2022
  • In case that short letter is not clear enough, Norquist has penned a few jeremiads — see here and here — spelling out his opposition to carbon taxes at greater length.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • DeVos rejected the false dichotomy that insists that the case for school choice rests on jeremiads against traditional public schools.
    — Grant Addison, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In his famous jeremiad against hackneyed political rhetoric, Orwell pointed to a pernicious cycle.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • This Millennial jeremiad supplies the righteousness that’s been missing from much current deranged discourse.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The anti-Trump jeremiads came amid a roiling national debate over the president’s feelings about people of color.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • This is the point in many media jeremiads when readers are braced for a high-minded paean to issue coverage and a tearful lament about why journalists fritter away their time with horse-race coverage.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The author of this passionate, important jeremiad might have sought to treat a bit more thoughtfully the many others in the academy who share his concerns — to lecture less, and listen more, as good teachers do.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The question, of course, is what we are supposed to do with these bourgeois jeremiads against bourgeois civilization, beyond enjoying them as high-end primal-scream therapy.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • As if his client wasn’t unsympathetic enough, Rapawy brought corporations who violated securities laws into the picture, singing a jeremiad for the giants.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Notably, the Leadership Conference’s jeremiad against Menashi does not cite his article on ethnonationalism.
    — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • This issue is particularly famous for Mona Eltahaway's jeremiad against Arab male culture, and their attitudes toward women.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2012
  • Unlike some recent anti-tech jeremiads (including Keen’s two earlier books), the author portrays our current Internet dystopia in a larger context of human history.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Justice Alito’s 54-page jeremiad—not including a lengthy appendix—berated the majority for failing to grapple with the potential implications.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2020

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