Example sentences for: hand-wringing

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

  • But I would ask whether Eleanor's public hand-wringing didn't provide him with cover for his inaction.

  • Fight Club , a movie about a fictional organization of men who strip down and beat each other to pulp, has provoked more than its share of media hand-wringing, particularly diatribes about Hollywood's infatuation with violence and Faludi-esque ruminations about the emasculated American male.

  • The paper goes on to characterize international reaction thus far as "public condemnations and much hand-wringing," and also notes a problem with a proposed interposition of a U.N. peacekeeping force: China, which can veto such a move, is believed to be opposed to it.

  • Amid all the hand-wringing (especially on the sports pages) about whether Latrell Sprewell has been dealt with too harshly comes the voice of reason in the form of a letter to the NYT , which points out that if Sprewell had a real job, he'd be looking at permanent unemployment and criminal prosecution.

  • News Quiz participants mostly associate the activities in today's question with Littleton or Kosovo, two locales that President Clinton seems unable to connect, even when his hand-wringing about teen violence runs on the same front pages that report NATO bombs and refugee suffering.


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