Sentences with phrase «hair shirt»

Once upon a time, we all figured extreme fuel efficiency would be the modern hair shirt — righteous but painful.

I'm not talking about wearing hair shirts.

Realistically, that will involve the use of cheap carbon to assist third world development and equally realistically most western citizens have no intention of donning hair shirts and transferring wealth wholseale.

By asking about the sustainability of our collective future in terms of «how many people» and «how much will they consume», I hear Four Horsemen in Hair Shirts clattering toward us to save the planet!

Oh yay, i love carrie bradshaws hair shirt, it looked so so good, so thank you for that amazing compliment!

Her first project after Scream 2 was in Nothing to Lose, but her following film, 1998's Urban Legend, was successful enough to earn her a place among Hollywood's latest batch of up - and - coming starlets.After Legend, Gayheart co-starred with fellow Scream - er Neve Campbell in the obscure Canadian film Hair Shirt (1998).

Kia and Hyundai now have a compact platform exclusive to hybrid and plug - in hybrid powertrains, though Kia says it went out of its way to avoid designing a green car hair shirt.

Via Renewable Energy World More on LEED Homes: First LEED - H house certified in Western US 5IVE: Diary of a LEED Platinum Home LEED For Houses: Prada Label or Prickly Hair Shirt?

I'm not an advocate for simple hair shirt lifestyles, however there's possibly a sweet spot of consumerism in the middle somewhere that is sustainable long term.

And you don't need to look for fringe hair shirt lunatics to find evidence of this retrogressive tendency.

I expect both Catholics to try to outdo the other and show up in hair shirts and in their bare feet covered with ashes.

She stopped short only of wearing a hair shirt.

[14] Also, in a light - hearted letter to her brother, enclosing a hair shirt, St. Teresa of Avila writes, «I send you this hair shirt to use when you find it difficult to recollect yourself at times of prayer or when you are anxious to do something for the Lord... Even a mere nothing like this makes one so happy when it is done for God out of love for him.»

Most of them found themselves embedded in a sinful society that was so bad it makes our culture look like a self righteous meeting of the hair shirt, stick as a chair club.

Given a hair shirt by the seminary rector to test his resolve to join the Trappists, Hrdlika passes with flying colors.

At Joe's request, Hrdlika bequeaths him the hair shirt (there'll be «God's plenty of such where Hrdlika was going,» Joe reasons) Unfortunately, the bequest comes at a train station and Hrdlika is still wearing the shirt.

Savage is not a word associated with Liberal Democrats, but in this new era of austerity they have joined the hair shirt competition as their party conference begins.

They really need to go home and take off their Hemp underpants, hair shirts and sandals as they do tend to see themselves as saviours of the world.

But they might want to pay heed to one recent finding from modern neuroimaging: It turns out that acting virtuously does not really require a hair shirt.

255, wear my hair shirt.

The cassock is no longer the marker of respect it had been in earlier epochs but has become, after the revelations of rampant pedophilia and the churchly abuse of power in Catholic Ireland, a badge of opprobrium he wears with the stubborn martyrdom of a hair shirt.

Now having donned our hair shirts, these conferences have become both our confessional where we plead for forgiveness for our narrow - minded approach and our penance, where we agree to exchange our convictions for anything that will suggest just how broad - minded we now are — as long as we de-emphasize academic goals.

But there's something about that approach that feels too much like a hair shirt and, in the larger scheme of things, works against the equitable treatment that we all want for charter schools.

On paved streets and highways the 2016 Mercedes - Benz G550 is no hair shirt.

The 2.2 D XF certainly doesn't feel like a hair shirt eco special, with decent performance and a sharp, dynamically focussed dynamic experience.

Some insist that the hair shirt required to appreciate owning a 911 has been replaced by a cashmere sweater.

But despite being a CV, the Shogun Sport Commercial isn't all hair shirt as it's based on the range - topping Shogun Sport 4 spec, which means leather, LED lights, Climate, Keyless, auto lights and wipers headlight washers and 510W sound.

Like a hair shirt, it only adds to the wearer's pain.

«Three brilliant artists from the all - star exhibition line - up: the conversation includes, but is not limited to: hermit crab housing, hair shirts, the human embodiment of plants, horse skeletons, and taxidermy birds.»

Perhaps this Hair Shirt foursome will make us profligates mend our ways and emulate the environmentally virtuous, but don't count on it.

Hair shirts, no.)

Nobody in Palo Alto is wearing a hair shirt.

Little surprise, then, that policymakers and voters are wary of climate - change policy; it's become a hair shirt that Americans are expected to wear for the «good of the planet.»

I may have to ask the ship's priest about a hair shirt.