jeremiad

• I could continue with this jeremiad, but my own life intrudes to still my words. —  Cheif Red Fox
• The Limits of Power as a jeremiad, a lamentation on personal and collective hubris and sanctimoniousness. —  TPMCafe
• A one-time Harvard Divinity School student, Hedges erupts along the venerable if somewhat wearying lines of a New England Puritan jeremiad, the denunciatory sermon whose purpose, in the hands of such latter-day Puritans as the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe, has been to blast open new pathways to redemption on earth, if not in heaven. —  TPMCafe
• But I vow that you weak men will ruin travel by giving in all the time The man at whom this brief jeremiad was hurled painfully counted out two lire fifty, which was immediately transferred to the palm of the guide, who ushered the wayfarers in Solemnly Pietro watched them pass, wondering what the terms were. —  The Lure of the Mask
• He delivered a half-hour jeremiad, picking up from Spark Capital's Dennis Miller's ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now

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