Word: jeremiads
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Professor Krutch's jeremiad concerning the problem of epistemology facing our age can be stated more succinctly and bluntly as follows...
...however overstated they may have been, Wylie was impressive for his stark anger at the course of U.S. civilization. In Opus 21, he buries a few pinheads of truth so deep in bad taste and bad writing that his message, if any, is lost in the muck, and his jeremiad itself is silly...
Desperate Jeremiad. In the past, the report of the contemporary traveler on a future society or imaginary land (Edward Bellamy, Sir Thomas More) has often been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...attacks that followed from the benches of the Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...
This legend sums up British Publisher-Socialist Victor Gollancz' political jeremiad. After a lifetime of left-wing and fellow-traveling activity, Gollancz has discovered that man's only guide in life is a set of ethics absolutely and unconditionally binding under all conditions. When Christ told His followers to love all men as their brothers, He meant-insists Gollancz-exactly what He said. That creed, says Gollancz, may be accepted or rejected but should not be reduced to the petty levels of convenient compromise...