Sentence examples for beating of the breast from inspiring English sources

Verbally, it might come across with a gesture at the feet and then a beating of the breast, but, here, as elsewhere, the candidate remained as parade-straight as the US soldiers his speech strangely never mentioned.

"There'd be a fair amount of wailing, beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth," said C.E.S. Franks, a former professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and a leading authority on Canadian constitutional matters.

Seemingly denouncing a different document from what Heritage read, the Wall Street Journal warns that the paper subjects the U.S. to "minute scrutiny" and reflects "the usual beating of the liberal breast".

If in the mood to move, rather than contemplate, the Max is situated smack in the beating breast of the city.

The cello keened in the Andante (Ani Kalayjian); the violin (Lisa Lee) keened after it; there was a sense of beating on a breast.

That is why poetry, with its throbbing rhythms and beating of breasts, appeals equally to the nondescript mob in the theater and to the best among us.

Similarly, the beating rate of the spontaneously beating right atrium was also unaffected by U50488.

Ulceration of the breast.

In the whales that swam in the sea, in the heart beating in my breast.

Wing-beat referred to continual beating of the wings without prominent postural instability, as seen in wing-beat paralysis (File S9).

Which explains much of the breast-beating that has ensued since the Chinese announced plans this year to buy a big chunk of it.