Handwringing

I am deeply disturbed more handwringing is not being done and is so very absent from so many conferences and ELT settings of which I am part! ❋ Unknown (2010)

So a bit of handwringing is a good thing in my opinion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The point, though, after all of the handwringing, is that we’re not willing to stand up for women being systematically opporessed because (wait for it) we need Saudi oil. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Behind all the handwringing is the fact that the Internet has not yet become the moneymaker that the $300 billion global publishing industry had hoped. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet why must concerns about civil liberties be considered "handwringing" and upon what evidence is it presumed that it is impossible to be concerned by the terrorist threat and by the erosion of important civil liberties? ❋ Unknown (2009)

This remains me of their public "handwringing" about whether to tout their overwhelming lead in the national polls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those opposed to nuclear annihilation are appeasers and guilty of "handwringing" ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Those opposed to nuclear annihilation are appeasers and guilty of "handwringing" ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

Those who think we ought not to vaporize Syria and Iran off the face of the earth are, to Williams, weak, appeasing losers who can't stop their annoying "handwringing" over all this "innocent life" garbage. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

He goes so far as to mock as "handwringing" concerns over the hundreds of millions or so innocent lives that would be eradicated if we dropped nuclear weapons and eliminated whole countries. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

Anglofille: I think the "handwringing" over the cost of the inauguration is perfectly justified. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But most bonds and stocks are beating the puny returns offered by money-market funds this year, despite all the handwringing about the economy and government debt. ❋ Gregory Zuckerman (2011)

And despite the usual murmurs about getting bad advice or the handwringing over M&A deals that fail miserably or even the presence of in-house dealmaking teams, those fees have not demonstrably tightened over the years. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

TOKYO — Last year's handwringing over the potentially crippling impact of the strong yen on Japanese corporate profits has eased, soothed by a steady stream of solid earnings results and upbeat outlooks from some of the country's leading exporters. ❋ Daisuke Wakabayashi (2011)

The handwringers are [whinging] again because [the government] has turned back the [boats]. ❋ TheHoodedClaw (2013)