Sentences with phrase «jeremiads on»

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.

Even articles like the one above, or Posner's jeremiads on the subject down South, or this comment itself, lead one to ask why we care.

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.

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

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chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.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chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

Not exact matches

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.

Comey coverage never cites FBI's politicization Re «Comey calls Trump «morally unfit»» (April 16): By giving James Comey's book sales a front - page story, you are continuing on your anti-Trump jeremiad.

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.

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.

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.»

Not always easily distinguished from the first — especially, as every husband / wife / parent knows, by spouse or son — the hopeful jeremiad is based on potential seen but as yet unrealized.