jeremiads

• His jeremiads are probably justified, and as the historian looks back he finds that they give the truest statement of the past; for the present must be very bad, indeed, if it does not discover conditions still worse in the past from which it has emerged. —  Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography
• As with so many semi-jeremiads written by people a decade or so older than me, I find myself more hopeful than Mark Edmundson. —  Culture Making
• Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the camps in 1945, survived cancer and a KGB assassination attempt, spent two decades in exile in self-imposed isolation, and lived out his final years writing bitter jeremiads at what he saw as the moral squalour of post-Soviet Russia.
• [Fairfield] Osborn's jeremiads and made population growth 'a major focus for groups interested in linking the problem of resource limits to the growing concern about "quality of life."'...
• They are giving the young people who were repulsed more than anyone by Bushism nothing truly different on policy, other than anti-spending jeremiads, than what the last president offered for the previous eight years. —  Forbes.com: News

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