Such hand wringing is precisely what the Republicans have been waiting for.

"This is not a wringing of the hands, but a look at the factors we face.

With much wringing of hands, Wulfstan told him the story.

Still, coming up with the right report card and making it a source for positive change rather than mere hand wringing is no easy task.

The hand wringing was so fierce, it's amazing that people didn't break their fingers.

But there has to be a wringing out of shaky players before that happens."

It was said fretfully, and in a human might have been accompanied by the wringing of hands.

She wrung out the skirt and handed it to him for a more powerful wringing.

But if he was apprehensive, the President indulged in no verbal wringing of his hands today.

A quick pathetic little wringing of her hands.

Just a wringing of the hands over the ferment which is developing in Europe.'

For nearly the length of 14th Street, the wringing of merchants' hands is almost audible.

"Afterward, we'd leave on our wringing, dirty clothes and jump in the ocean.

It was expected that Louis would enter the family business in turn, and a great wringing of hands greeted his announcement to the contrary.

Trust me, you'll never see so much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands.

Hinrik's hand wringing was interrupted by the muted buzz of the extension.

The synthetic anguish and wringing of hands by Labour Members fools nobody.

The hairlike ultimate ends clung by molecular wringing, and the organism felt how they did.

Leave wringing of your hands: peace!

Hearn's approach is to answer the wringing of hands with the ringing of tills.

The simplest analogy would be the wringing of a cloth where you turn one side clockwise and the other anti-clockwise.

The gnome's hands slowed in their wringing.

Then more hand wringing could ensue.

The process of wringing involves four steps:

President Bush went on wringing his hands and doing nothing.

For three years now, the international community has been wringing its hands.

He made her live again before me, and wrung my heart.

The words were wrung out of him almost against his will.

By the time they got back she felt wrung out.

He had taken his hands off the door and was wringing them together.

I have to run the words back through my head, wringing the sense out of them.

And so we're wringing these problems out of our systems.

All that they could do was to wring their hands.

He wrung my hand once more, and left me suddenly.

Should the rest of us wring our hands and leave it to them?

It wrung my heart to see her looking like this.

It was time to wring the truth out of her.

"And how like a woman to wring her hands at the thought of a fight."

It wrung her heart; but she did not question him.

You look so wrung out every morning no other woman would stand a chance.

Paul wrung the hand of the old man and went on board.

I really am wrung out, she thought again, and closed her eyes.

You have no idea what it costs me to wring out my work now.

Not that she wrings more from the situation than is there.

"The things that we now wring our hands about have actually happened for a long time," he said.

I could not wring a drop of information from him.

Women have been wringing their hands over it for decades.

She had wrung out all the water of the storm.

I'll wring him dry and then take care of the matter.