hand-wringing

There should be some hand-wringing [among Republicans].

Steele And Giuliani Jump To Palin's Defense Following Politico Piece The Huffington Post News Team 2010

There are periodic bouts of hand-wringing in the blogosphere on the subject of ‘native-speakerism’ - the term that Adrian Holliday coined to capture “the chauvinistic belief that ‘native speakers’ represent a ‘Western culture’ from which spring the ideals both of the language and of language teaching methodology” (2008, p. 49).

N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

To be sure, there has been a lot of hand-wringing in the U.S. and in European capitals about the viability of land swaps for peace.

A Balkan Peace Bargain Dana Rohrabacher 2011

The answer to so much casual destruction is to stop hand-wringing and rebrand traditional media, including journalism.

Time For A Slow-Word Movement Trevor Butterworth 2009

At golf's big annual merchandise show in Orlando, Fla., last month, I sat through several state-of-the-industry hand-wringing sessions.

The Battle for the Soul of the Game John Paul Newport 2012

Despite the hand-wringing that followed, there was no inclination to consider whether the NSC should be reserved for civilian leadership.

Dangers of a politicized military Steven E. Levingston 2010

While hand-wringing seems to be the order of the day for Beantown, clearly, Belichick has confidence that the deal is a good one for the Patriots.

The Belichickian aspect Jason Maloni 2010

In that piece, I did some hand-wringing about how new efforts to ease monetary policy, while appearing likely, might not happen if the economy showed improvement before the central bank's Nov. 2-3 policy meeting.

QE2: Answers to four big questions facing the Fed Neil Irwin 2010

In the three weeks since Mayor Adrian Fenty's epic loss, there's been no shortage of whither-education-reform op-ed pieces penned, but there's also been behind-the-scenes hand-wringing over how a once-popular incumbent like Fenty could be trounced so thoroughly.

Consultant's postmortem: Fenty became 'flawed and expendable' Mike DeBonis 2010

Still, I'd rather see some action than the usual deficit-bashing and hand-wringing.

Lines drawn over McDonnell's transportation plan Peter Galuszka 2011