Jeremiads [noun]

He could have easily penned a jeremiad, calling on his readers to reassert old values from which Americans have unfortunately departed.

The complaints increased in number and intensity and Members of Parliament and newspaper writers joined in the jeremiad.

However, here is my jeremiad after all; it seems to have been inevitable!

The writer had nothing new to say, and, like most other such attacks, his jeremiad was in an hour or two forgotten.

Yet every page of it is a Jeremiad, an exhortation to his countryfolk to stop short on the road to ruin.

I dare say you are wondering why I inflict this Jeremiad upon you—I hardly know myself; however, it is finished.

Still other insects, unseen but none the less busy, added to the burden of his jeremiad.

It should be added that this sensational forecast was no purposeless jeremiad.

One frantic jeremiad from Constantinople over the Treaty of Berlin may be quoted before the subject is dismissed.

How candidly and meekly you took my Jeremiad on your severity to second-class men.