hair shirt

Their armor was silver plate polished to a mirror sheen, but underneath, she knew, every man of them wore a hair shirt.

But its policymakers can at least console themselves that their hair-shirt approach is gaining some admirers in the currency markets.

Markets do not trust in the political sustainability of hair - shirt economics .

When I woke up, my hair, shirt, pillow, and bedsheets were soaked. I threw up all over myself in my sleep.

But it's in that very agony that the release sometimes comes, sometimes that agony is our hair shirt.

The trouble is that you didn't communicate your hair-shirt policy well enough to the board members when you hired them.

Any Japanese leaders who suggest it's time to remove the hair shirt of national guilt are immediately branded warmongering fascists.

In these hair-shirt times, selling the ultimate statement of automotive luxury is tricky.

Given this history, why would policy makers want to put on another fiscal hair shirt today?

Even the hair-shirt option, then, will bring only short-term relief.

Rival parties have joined the hair-shirt brigade.

Imagine that Germany then did don the hair shirt. Would it instruct France to do the same?

The hair shirt alone will wear badly.

This is one 34-year-old who's been there, done that - and got the hair-shirt.

On the other hand, if I wore the hair shirt too much, I would have a hard time convincing voters to give me another chance to serve.

KENNETH BAKER: Keith wore a hair shirt, he beat his breast, and said we were to blame;