hand-wringing

This is why there will not be much hand-wringing over the Archbishop of Canterbury confessing to doubting the existence of God.

Both have elicited the same hand wringing and pearls clutching.

The military ran the same Don't Ask experiment with nearly a million men and women, with much worse hand-wringing about ending it.

It would be welcome relief from letting Republican hand-wringing ambivalence drive the immigration debate.

There is much international hand-wringing and regret that not much can be done when violence is so quickly escalating.

And how he puts up with that hand-wringing ready-to-cry wife!

Then after a lot of song-singing and hand-wringing we all went home, tears in every eye and smiles on every mouth.

The former was in a helpless state of tears and hand-wringing.