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  • Kids Prefer Cheese: Why the word "Jeremiad" was invented

    Why the word "Jeremiad" was invented 2009

  • Much has been written about him and the rhetorical and social justice tradition of "Jeremiad" (s) out of which he emerges (not just a "black" thing, you know).

    Poll Sheds Light On Impact Wright Is Having On Obama 2009

  • Nevertheless, his "Jeremiad" may be read no small gratification, for in it one traces here and there the vigorous, slashing, savage style which characterises "Guy Livingstone."

    Current Literature 1863

  • Mrs. Swisshelm's contempt is only surpassed by Mrs. Hale's "Jeremiad" over the infidelity of the noble leader of our movement.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • But, the day would belong to Gene Nichol, the outspoken professor of law at UNC, who delivered a riveting Jeremiad rippling with penetrating punchlines orchestrated against a leitmotif of bitterly incisive invective skewering the Republican radicalism now infecting the American electorate.

    Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up! Michael Carmichael 2011

  • But, the day would belong to Gene Nichol, the outspoken professor of law at UNC, who delivered a riveting Jeremiad rippling with penetrating punchlines orchestrated against a leitmotif of bitterly incisive invective skewering the Republican radicalism now infecting the American electorate.

    Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up! Michael Carmichael 2011

  • In The American Jeremiad, his classic 1978 account of that phenomenon, Sacvan Bercovitch, of Harvard, points out that from the very start of European settlement in New England, colonists were warned that God was disappointed in them, so they should improve not just their individual ethics but their collective social behavior.

    How America Can Rise Again 2010

  • But, the day would belong to Gene Nichol, the outspoken professor of law at UNC, who delivered a riveting Jeremiad rippling with penetrating punchlines orchestrated against a leitmotif of bitterly incisive invective skewering the Republican radicalism now infecting the American electorate.

    Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up! Michael Carmichael 2011

  • Well, he's the editor of "Outlaw Bible," so you'd expect a Howling Jeremiad, no?

    Hot air didn't stop the Nazis, either. Roger Sutton 2009

  • But, the day would belong to Gene Nichol, the outspoken professor of law at UNC, who delivered a riveting Jeremiad rippling with penetrating punchlines orchestrated against a leitmotif of bitterly incisive invective skewering the Republican radicalism now infecting the American electorate.

    Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up! Michael Carmichael 2011

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