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breast-beating
[ brest-bee-ting ]
noun
- a loud and demonstrative display of grief, remorse, or the like:
The authorities indulged in a great deal of breast-beating about traffic accidents but failed to pass new driving laws.
adjective
- characterized by or involving breast-beating.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 产谤别补蝉迟顎-产别补迟顎卐谤 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of breast-beating1
Example Sentences
Business leaders may have calculated that Trump鈥檚 breast-beating about imposing higher tariffs was just talk, or part of a negotiating strategy.
I thought Chris Chibnall鈥榮 stint as showrunner might have better served Whittaker, to put it more mildly than many others have, and though Davies鈥 immediate successor, Steven Moffat, created some of the series鈥 best concepts and characters, the 鈥淎m I a good man?鈥 existential breast-beating assigned to Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi I found tiresome.
Cue the breast-beating and TikTok wailing.
So, needless to say, the Republicans are now engaged in intense breast-beating and lamentation.
As the academy, and the industry, were facing a relatively hashtag-free moment in regards to issues of diversity, inequality and harassment, there was a lack of breast-beating in the presentation.
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