Sentences with phrase «jeremiad in»

One could be excused for concluding, upon reading Bill McKibben's latest anti-fracking jeremiad in the Nation, that a new Harvard study released in February has found that US methane emissions over the last decade have risen due to increasing natural gas production.

Hess Protests Too Much: Your editor keeps a few things in mind when it comes to American Enterprise Institute education czar Rick Hess» jeremiad in Education Week about a protest banner accusing U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos of being a White Supremacist during her appearance last month at Harvard University.

In his Pulitzer Prize - winning book «Anti-intellectualism in American Life,» Richard Hofstadter characterized writing on education in the United States as «a literature of acid criticism and bitter complaint... The educational jeremiad is as much a feature of our literature as the jeremiad in the Puritan sermons.»

jeremiad in his link round - up, it seemed impossible not to address what has suddenly become a hot topic: the death of the great American blockbuster, although with Iron Man 3 striding past $ 400 million, reports of the death of tentpole filmmaking are perhaps exaggerated.

Not exact matches

Paul Ehrlich's 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb, was in many ways the first big international pop - expert success, packaging an apocalyptic message for mass consumption.

Conservatives were still likely to read quite a few jeremiads, and social - conservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the rational stance.

Roof, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, and McKinney, professor of religion and society at Hartford Seminary, are interested not in issuing a jeremiad or an apology about the state of American religion, but in ascertaining just how the landscape of American religion is being altered.

The assembly that heard his gracious words in the hometown synagogue responded warmly, but before they could heap on too much praise, Jesus slipped a jeremiad — a complaint reminiscent of Jeremiah himself — into his talk.

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As is the case with jeremiads, The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America sometimes exaggerates and distorts, but it is, all in all, a cautionary tale that should be heeded by bishops, priests, theologians, and lay leaders responsible for the future of Catholicism in America.

The jeremiad is a venerable genre in American public discourse.

Rossing issues a salvo with her opening line: «The rapture is a racket,» Her first paragraph is a full - blown jeremiad: «In place of healing, the rapture proclaims escape.

If I engaged in a jeremiad about the sad condition of the modern university, that jeremiad would include most Christian universities.

David Noble in Historians Against History anticipated the current interest in primitivism by showing how the semisecular historical tradition uttered constant jeremiads against an America falling into complexity.

Still, there is some grim humor lightening up the jeremiads — as in the boy that teases his father, proposing to take him out for ice cream on May Day.

Kufuor stands behind a frosted glass shouting «Vote for Akufo - Addo» from the rooftops as though he, himself, believes in that maudlin jeremiad of an obituary.

Yet it's hard to square these jeremiads with the simple fact that, after adjusting for inflation, per - pupil spending today is nearly three times what it was in 1960 - and that spending jumps were higher in the 1990s than ever before.

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

, the two books in this set that come closest to the familiar jeremiads against comprehensive public high schools.

Career reformers might start with Meredith Maran's Class Dismissed and Elinor Burkett's Another Planet, the two books in this set that come closest to the familiar jeremiads against comprehensive public high schools.

«Africa's moral and cultural dysfunctions loom as large as its material problems in this wide - ranging jeremiad.»

A walk around most fairs will confirm what Schachter says here in response to Jerry Saltz's jeremiad:

This isn't a jeremiad against life insurance in principle.