How to Use jeremiad in a Sentence

jeremiad

noun

• The speaker ends her jeremiad, and the only people to clap are the members of Die Linke, isolated in the far-left section of the chamber.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The speaker ends her jeremiad, and the only people to clap are the members of Die Linke, isolated in the far-left section of the chamber.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• What these scholars offer is not a dense political tome but a lively jeremiad.
  — David Hawpe, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2018
• 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
• After this jeremiad for a nation in crisis, one wonders how Osnos can possibly suggest a way out.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Or an art of jeremiads, that compels us to confront our failings without escape or excuses?
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Yet even a weary reader might hope that this millennial novelist may do what traditional jeremiads have not: Wake us up.
  — Bruce Watson, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 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
• Though Trump ultimately failed in his quest to steal the election, his weeks-long jeremiad succeeded in undermining faith in elections and the legitimacy of Biden’s victory.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2020
• This Millennial jeremiad supplies the righteousness that’s been missing from much current deranged discourse.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• Both are well-argued and accessible jeremiads against the monolithic impact of the tech giants, though neither definitively lands the case that there is anything that can realistically be done about them.
  — Brad Stone, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Long jeremiads and emotional rebuttals have been penned.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024