hand-wringing

For years, there have been endless rounds of media hand-wringing about the loneliness epidemic among men, which is unfairly implied to be the fault of women.

The Guardian said the "film-makers' message gets lost in the deafening blizzard of battle", while Empire added: "It may well be cinema's most effective, purest anti-war film: there is no sentimentality, no hand-wringing, but most significantly not a second of it makes war look cool, or attractive."

To set the stage, you would have had to know that the congressional Democrats have been hand-wringing for days over how they were going to handle the speech, seeing as Trump has been systematically dismantling the federal government, destroying the economy and discarding the existing world order.

He dismissed global "hand-wringing" about AI safety.

The announcement by the Chinese firm DeepSeek of its R1 model also provoked not a little hand-wringing over the idea that China could so easily have outpaced American tech companies, which have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to bring their AI performance to a level that DeepSeek seems to have achieved at a fraction of the cost.