Jeremiad

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[jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad]



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–noun 

a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.





　

Its characters struggle with some of the world's dirtiest jobs—morally as well as physically. In this, Linklater is following in the Sinclair tradition: The Jungle, which also focused on immigrant workers, was intended not so much as an attack on the meatpacking industry as a socialist jeremiad against capitalism itself. 





malaise 

woebegone & hapless

woe

To add to his [woes], Bergman's producer at Svensk Filmindustri informed him that he would not be able to finance his next film if this one didn't [perform] at the box office.

saturnine

[Piccoli], the balding, saturnine slickster with the five-o’clock shadow, and Belmondo, the oily outlaw punk. 

[echoing] Freud's saturnine assessment of the human race. 

plaintive

King's plaintive [baritone] had all the passion of gospel

The studio that Jerry built is about to be demolished, and the [music] dubbed over the shot is Duke Ellington's plaintive "(In My) Solitude."



cf. dole

doleful

a doleful [look] on her face. 

pine

Complicating his life is his beautiful contact who pines [after] him with fetishistic ardor

to pine [for] one's home and family.  

Separated by their families, the lovers pined [away].  



lugubrious

exaggeratedly, affectedly mournful

the film bogs [down] in the [hushed], [lugubrious] narration of disillusioned newspaperman Jack Burden

Scalp