Sentences with phrase «jeremiad of»

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.

Barton rallies the troops with the age - old jeremiad of moral declension.

Explanations range from the possibility a robust recovery is still on the way, to the jeremiad of former White House budget director David Stockman that money - printing is setting us up for a monstrous new crash.

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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.

Christians — Protestants and Catholics alike — have, almost since its inception, been inveighing Jeremiads against the evils of Facebook.

The Broken Covenant was indeed a jeremiad intended to change America, and of course it was widely received that way.

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.

His jeremiad is no mere denunciation of a corrupt political class but of the Spaniards» failure to live up to even the basic dictates of human reason.

In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of thought in bioethics.

The Death of the West is a high «decibel jeremiad that calls the sullenly resentful to stop whining and man the barricades.

His jeremiads against the collapse of moral absolutes resonates with many black Americans who have experienced firsthand the despair and destruction wrought by the collapse of shared public norms.

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.

Since there is no clarity about who belongs to that class, the only possible result of heeding the NCC jeremiad is that those outside the morally exempt victim categories should feel terribly bad about being Americans.

Putnam's historical sensibility leads him away from that shallow jeremiad, and as a result he both deepens our understanding of the current situation and evokes hope that, as the book's subtitle suggests, revival will follow collapse.

Even before controversy erupted over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's jeremiads, 2008's presidential candidates had kicked up the level of God - talk notches previously unknown.

And, of course, the fire - and - brimstone, life - and - death jeremiads on everything from homosexuality to atheism to Dungeons & Dragons.

Such a climate is ripe for the production of jeremiads, and authors such as Page Smith (Killing the Spirit) and the late Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) have obliged.

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.

His critique of the nanny state made him useless to the liberal left; his jeremiads on consumer capitalism alienated the economic right; and his tirades against «elites» made him persona non grata to much of the knowledge class.

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

Trump apparently plans to use VP Joe Biden's famous jab at the dilapidated state of LaGuardia Airport as part of a lengthy jeremiad against the current administration — even though the federal government has committed to help finance the $ 4.2 billion demolition and rebuilding of the Queens plane terminal.

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.

The movie is too shrewd to qualify as a jeremiad, but underneath the comedy are boiling undercurrents of anger and despair.

More jeremiad than satire, Sidney Lumet's well - oiled production of Paddy Chayefsky's prophetic masterpiece follows an amoral TV conglomerate that exploits a mentally ill news anchor by turning his low - rated national news show into whorehouse entertainment.

The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros's 2015 jeremiad against cultures of compliance within the school system emphasizes empowerment instead, stressing the importance of questioning, creativity, and wonder for students, teachers, and administrators alike.

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.

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.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

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.»

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.

But given her fact - free jeremiads against implementing Common Core reading and math standards, neither her claptrap against Teach For America nor silence about the failure of ed schools is shocking.

At the time of this jeremiad, there had been relatively little coverage of the matter — a few blogs, that's all.

He's trying to resurrect Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, once the country's biggest opposition group, and he regularly posts anti-Nazarbayev jeremiads on his Facebook page.