Noun : The authorities indulged in a great deal of breast-beating about traffic accidents but failed to pass new driving laws. From Dictionary.com.
Seixon, your breast-beating and whining is getting very old. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’] Reference
The breast-beating we do because our fiction is tripe, is real. From Wordnik.com. [January 2007] Reference
The government caves in to Canadian nationalist breast-beating. From Wordnik.com. [RADARSAT-2 sale to be blocked] Reference
But breast-beating hysteria merely betrays impious tunnel vision. From Wordnik.com. ["Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."] Reference
Appropos of that, I re-post a previous post: "breast-beating hysteria" ?. From Wordnik.com. ["Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reminds me a lot of Dukakis."] Reference
Why all the breast-beating and consternation about a problem so easily solved?. From Wordnik.com. [Using and Banning Handles and Pseudonyms on OpEdNews] Reference
It started out kind and magnanimous and descended into maudlin breast-beating. From Wordnik.com. [Searls Reflects on Council Loss at cvillenews.com] Reference
I don't think the breast-beating accomplishes much, but the soul-searching does. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian and American Relations] Reference
In other words, the breast-beating is all about the separation of track and train. From Wordnik.com. [One day they will get it right] Reference
In the fall of 1979, Carter, gas lines, and breast-beating were all on their way out. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams From My Father]
No one seemed disposed to do anything about it, so why bother with the breast-beating?. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
These pieces of pseudo-left breast-beating are not worth the paper they are written upon. From Wordnik.com. [26 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference
However I did write a post criticizing the breast-beating of television news after Katrina. From Wordnik.com. [Correcting the facts and missing the truth « BuzzMachine] Reference
There were no court cases, no inquiries, no breast-beating about procedures and "human rights". From Wordnik.com. [The emasculation of common sense] Reference
But I'd always thought that all this breast-beating over the "failure to fail" was largely metaphorical. From Wordnik.com. [March 2008] Reference
Red-Eye abruptly ceased his breast-beating and tooth-grinding, and ran across the timber-jam to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XI] Reference
There has been a great deal of breast-beating ever since: What magazines are left to fight the modern fight?. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Drucker: What Is "Modern Design" Now?] Reference
After Princess Diana died, Madonna engaged in a breast-beating wail about how she felt upon hearing the news. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Dezenhall: Carmen Electrism and John Edwards' Moment of Truth] Reference
The Russians write beautiful tunes, but they are often kind of whiny and breast-beating: 'Look how I suffer.'. From Wordnik.com. [Music's Obi-Wan Kenobi] Reference
By the same token, regarding oneself as the foremost of sinners is not a form of disingenuous breast-beating. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
These poisonous debates mainly encourage political breast-beating; each side flaunts its own moral superiority. From Wordnik.com. [Poisonous Symbolism] Reference
Amid the frenzied breast-beating over the President's death, there has also been a lot Of sober soul-searching. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian and American Relations] Reference
While this seems smarter and certainly more pragmatic than breast-beating and witch-hunting, I'm still waiting for the lab reports. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Lipsyte: The Literature of Betrayal Arrives at the Ballpark] Reference
More wailing and breast-beating from Elektra and gleeful, twisted laughter from her evil mother, now freed from her threatening son. From Wordnik.com. [The Venerable Brought to Vivid Life] Reference
The attribution of warming to human-produced CO2 is virtually baseless, scientifically, and amounts to little more than breast-beating. From Wordnik.com. [Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit] Reference
There has been much breast-beating recently by senior Labour figures over what they and the party stand for and why they entered politics. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
I know that breast-beating and sackcloth-and-ashes are not what you speak of when you say “if he could just admit where he went wrong”. From Wordnik.com. [Dear clusterflock | clusterflock] Reference
Perhaps this explains the breast-beating the past few days. From Wordnik.com. [The Swine Line] Reference
But it doesn't show in a breast-beating or vainglorious way. From Wordnik.com. [Right Minded Online] Reference
It will simply increase the breast-beating that already goes on. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
I am a businessman first and breast-beating right-winger second. From Wordnik.com. [NewsObserver.com - Home] Reference
So we do not get from Mary the normal breast-beating over her sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It would also be foolish to just dismiss today's blood-curdling rhetoric at the TUC as mere breast-beating. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
But now we know that this breast-beating and chest-clapping habit is to a gorilla a common-place performance, even in captivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
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