Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet JEREMIAD

Definition av JEREMIAD

1. jeremiad

Exempel på hur man kan använda JEREMIAD i en mening

• In his paper on Mills's work, Elwell describes The Causes of World War Three as a jeremiad on Weber's ideas, particularly that of "crackpot realism": "the disjunction between institutional rationality and human reason".
• Classical genres of rhetoric include apologia, epideictic, or jeremiad but have been expanded to encompass numerous other categories.
• Generally, the term jeremiad is applied to moralistic texts that denounce a society for its wickedness, and prophesies its downfall.
• In the words of historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he reminded the nation of the dangers of clerical despotism, and of how the fascism of the mullahs would be darker than any military junta".
• McEvilley did this in pointed fashion in "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief," his influential jeremiad against the underlying assumptions that framed the Museum of Modern Art's 1984 exhibition Primitivism and Twentieth Century Art.

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