This is the jeremiad of a man in the minority.

"I loved how it turned into a big old jeremiad!"

"I'm not trying to launch a jeremiad against the American school system," he said.

The jeremiad was a sturdy plant, with a long life ahead of it.

While his arguments have force, we also take Clarke's jeremiad as something more.

"I could go on, of course," he said, "but then this would begin to sound like a jeremiad."

In this sense his genial book is a jeremiad and a liberal's call to arms.

Two critics who call the book a "Jeremiad" ultimately gave it a positive review.

"Does this jeremiad come under the head of tidings?"

And his jeremiad about the budget deficit isn't so much wrong as painfully familiar.

The case has inspired endless jeremiads on race, gender and class despite growing questions about whether the accusations are true.

His jeremiad is controversial because extinction is hard to estimate.

"Bearish news, or jeremiads in the wilderness, will not be heard.

The letter, a virtual jeremiad in tone, grew bleaker as it went on.

She was thankful not to move, to say little, and to listen with half an ear to the vagabond's jeremiads.

Their jeremiads yearn for an airbrushed 50's America that never really existed.

Whether Chauvelin heard all these jeremiads, he could not afterwards have told you.

The first masters of the jeremiad form said that the purity of worship had been lost.

Knowing he was dying, Ashe summoned up a jeremiad.

The intellectuals are there; the public need not feel starved; we need no more jeremiads.

He and his spouse once wrote a jeremiad against the Bush administration that said, in part: "It is time to take back our country.

"I wanted to write a jeremiad," he added.

Then, shrugging after a typical jeremiad: "Aw, who wants pie?"

Trust me, or leave me alone and find some one else; but let us have an end, for God's sake, of your jeremiads."

One curiosity here is that the jeremiads of 1955 and 1997 are equally visions of decline.