Cliché Corner   

"The Princeton Review's designation of UW-Madison as the 10th best party school in the nation is always reported with [a lot] of hand-wringing by university officials..."
Madison's Wisconsin State Journal

"Unfortunately, recent scandals have made hand-wringing about business ethics the new national pastime."
Detroit News

"OK, maybe no one is doing 'Oklahoma!' on the big screen these days, but music--and not just background scene-setter music--is as intrinsic to the movies as hand-wringing is to a Seattle Seahawks season."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"But the dog footage was presented as particularly troubling, and CNN displayed some extended hand-wringing over its decision to air the material."
Salon.com

"There's plenty of hand-wringing, hollering and heavy breathing...."
New York Post

"He had the misfortune to die on Aug. 19, 1977, three days after Elvis. There was hoopla and hand-wringing for Elvis and nary a notice of Groucho."
Memphis' Commercial Appeal

"Still, no one does more hand-wringing about their sport than hockey people."
Sporting News

"In newsrooms across the country, there has been and will continue to be much hand-wringing about how to observe the one-year anniversary of the most devastating act of terrorism on American soil."
Boston Herald

"Donnell's conception of the work is anything but stagy, the pair agreed: Not a bit of hand-wringing or bosom-heaving to be seen."
Santa Fe New Mexican

"But if you're looking for self-flagellation, world-class hand-wringing and deep contemplations on what British tennis or soccer says about the national character, go no further than London's most respectable newspapers."
Newsday

"The hand-wringing has turned to high-fiving."
Fast Company

(from more than 580 references from June 15 to early September)