breast-beating

There's a remote possibility that the breast-beating is unnecessary.

Simon Welfare: A Tiger Killed by Hype Simon Welfare 2011

Red-Eye abruptly ceased his breast-beating and tooth-grinding, and ran across the timber-jam to the shore.

CHAPTER XI 2010

During President Bush's administration, three known terrorists were waterboarded, provoking much breast-beating.

The Contradictions of Harold Koh William McGurn 2011

There's a remote possibility that the breast-beating is unnecessary.

Simon Welfare: A Tiger Killed by Hype Simon Welfare 2011

Mr. Rybczynski, to his credit, deals matter-of-factly with environmental concerns, without the breast-beating such discussions often occasion.

The Garden City Blooms Again Francis Morrone 2010

But I'd always thought that all this breast-beating over the "failure to fail" was largely metaphorical.

March 2008 2008

It's not Chanukah, when the world's largest menorah is lit on 59th and Fifth Avenue, nor is it the solemn, breast-beating repentance of Yom Kippur which hangs over the city like bad breath.

Angela Himsel: Like Honey and Milk Under Your Tongue 2010

But I'd always thought that all this breast-beating over the "failure to fail" was largely metaphorical.

Failure to Fail 2008

It's not Chanukah, when the world's largest menorah is lit on 59th and Fifth Avenue, nor is it the solemn, breast-beating repentance of Yom Kippur which hangs over the city like bad breath.

Angela Himsel: Shavuot: Like Honey and Milk Under Your Tongue 2010

This one caused major hair-tearing and breast-beating amongst the status quo, as Team USA failed to even make their tourney final, then got to play in Birmingham in the opening round.

Eric Angevine: March Madness? Ivy League Can Send Two Teams to Big Dance 2010