That said, Mr. Obama did not don a verbal hair-shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama, The Populist - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

For though he fast right readily In hair-shirt or in mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George and Merrie England] Reference

But in addition to that, she is a hair-shirt environmentalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Dating Across Ideological Lines:] Reference

I killfiled many of the hair-shirt, usenet purity crowd around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hello Whatever I Will Call It] Reference

Even the hair-shirt option, then, will bring only short-term relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Trying to read Kierkegaard felt like wearing a hair-shirt with fleas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Books-a-Million] Reference

At the risk of coming over all hair-shirt, this strikes me as a mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't give your opponents ammunition] Reference

In this year of downturn and hair-shirt austerity, there are no such goodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soros suggests fixing the system] Reference

But in this year of downturn and hair-shirt austerity, there are no goody bags and no free handhelds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad banks and goody bags] Reference

Cool the planet and cool your home at the same time is too obvious a solution for the AGW hair-shirt brigade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference

Near to the coffin, the hair-shirt of St Thomas of Canterbury and the scarlet biretta of St Charles Borromeo were found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-30] Reference

He was unarmed, dressed only in his tunic, which had so much sand in the weave that it chafed his skin like a hair-shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Behind Lillian Hellman's plays there is a torn spirit: the bright stuffs of expensive productions and the hair-shirt of didacticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Foxes Revived] Reference

Mr. Williams's routine almost seems plausible, given the hair-shirt Calvinism that prevailed in Scotland during golf's formative centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volunteering for Torment] Reference

David Davis warns against 'hair-shirt' green policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to In depth: the climate change doubters] Reference

Reck not of sleep: wear the hair-shirt and the habergeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises] Reference

And you may bear me witness -- I'd take the hair-shirt if.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference

She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village Rector] Reference

Given the current hair-shirt mood around Parliament following the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

It had been wearing the hair-shirt of abstinence for most of the 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

David Davis: Why this ferocious desire to impose hair-shirt policies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

They offered a strident hair-shirt message of cutting back, saving, and sobriety.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

So that he can indulge himself in the perverse pleasure of the rasp of a hair-shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brimming Cup] Reference

He rejects the hair-shirt ideals of many greens as unlikely ever to appeal to most voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

"By my head," saith Lancelot, "Never shall they have hair-shirt of mine, so I may help it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference

Give me the rosary; light the lamp before the crucifix; place yon hair-shirt beneath those arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

He was severe on himself, wearing a coarse hair-shirt, passing frequently entire nights in prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

You may remember how he comes on to the stage with the words: "Laurent, lock up my hair-shirt and my scourge.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Days] Reference

It is his hair-shirt, to be worn from time to time next his soul for the wrongness in it and the mischief it did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Saunderson] Reference

He had left Petrograd dressed as a pilgrim, with hair-shirt and staff complete, and as such he posed to everybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia] Reference

After he became a bishop he still wore his hair-shirt and showed ever intense devotion in his celebration of divine service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference

From now on, we will all be living in a more Europe, with economic policy driven by Berlin's hair-shirt export-or-die model.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

Albert was not content to wear a hair-shirt himself; he would have liked to see all his subjects furnished with the same garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberation of Italy] Reference

Here he was required to cast off all the symbols of royalty, to put on a hair-shirt, and to wait barefoot his holiness's pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference