Words similar to breast-beating

Example sentences for: breast-beating

How can you use “breast-beating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The cyclone disaster in Orissa on the east coast of India prompted a breast-beating editorial in the Times of India . "Just what is it about us that we feel so helpless before a natural disaster?"
The papers were full of patriotic breast-beating.
The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
This dilemma has occasioned anguished breast-beating ever since the introduction of free agency into the player market 22 years ago.