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Some hairshirted consideration seems to have kicked in since Thursday.
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Her comments are a good example of what I've called Big Society Romanticism - the hazy notion that public spending cuts must be bracingly good for the voluntary sector because they purify it of the supposed corrupting influence of state cash, and enable charities to rediscover their noble, hairshirted inner activist.
The Guardian World News Patrick Butler 2010
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But it might be a touch too hairshirted for the modern day but what would be wrong with a tarted up Blog Post Dated: March 12, 2009 8: 00 AM
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… otherwise we risk counterproductive hairshirted holier-than-thouism … which I think George Marshall stepped right into.
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