hair-shirted

But this should not mean hair-shirted self-denial, where MPs who do not employ staff and pride themselves on low expenses, such as the Tory Philip Hollobone, are applauded by naive antipolitician populists.

Tories Ceauşescu Moment? 2008

Nor are we calling for ‘hair-shirted denial’, merely that it be demonstrated that money is being spent properly and that all is open and above board.

Archive 2008-01-27 2008

It always helps if you can find a reason to not be hair-shirted about it.

10:10 – progress on our pledges Interviews by Alok Jha 2010

Hard to believe an outgoing PM would do that, but Brown – still not seen in the Commons chamber, I'm sorry to report – is a strange hair-shirted fellow who might have cut his own pay for masochistic – do I mean Presbyterian?

David Cameron shows again that he 'gets it' 2010

But this should not mean hair-shirted self-denial, where MPs who do not employ staff and pride themselves on low expenses, such as the Tory Philip Hollobone, are applauded by naive antipolitician populists.

Archive 2008-01-27 2008

Nor are we calling for ‘hair-shirted denial’, merely that it be demonstrated that money is being spent properly and that all is open and above board.

Tories Ceauşescu Moment? 2008

It was the kind of bonkers, hair-shirted remark (in an otherwise very good speech) which taints the environmental movement.

Archive 2007-01-01 Stephen Tall 2007

All other visions were absent in the hair-shirted, and self-scourgings brought out nothing but sexual idealities, sensual temptations.

Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903

Voluptuousness: unto all hair-shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as "the world," by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

Voluptuousness: unto all hair-shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as "the world," by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872