Sentences with word «hairshirt»

To illustrate, some people (called «psychoneurotics» in traditional psychiatric nomenclature) are tyrannized by cruel superegos (hairshirt consciences), which produce neurotic guilt and anxiety.

Surely the feather - tipped flail and the silk - lined hairshirt will be enough.

Not just because hairshirt Corbyn would never wear an expensive Harrods car coat at the Cenotaph, the Knightsbridge store's label clearly visible on Footie's infamous «duffle coat» in Manchester's People's History Museum.

We hear, ad nauseam, that permanent hairshirts are in order for alleged climate transgressions, including things like flying in airplanes, eating meat, or having more than 2.1 children.

One of the central questions raised by all of this media second - guessing and hairshirt - wearing is this: Could the media really have altered the overall trend of Trump's rise to prominence and his possible nomination as Republican candidate?

It may come as a surprise to those who already consider the coalition a tough government, with its hairshirt rhetoric and seemingly endless spending cuts, but a growing number of Tory backbenchers, business figures, commentators and thinkers feel that the coalition — and by implication, other austerity governments across the west — is not nearly tough enough.

«Seeking to plunge us into the hell of a supposed conqueror shattered by his own hubris, [Zama] scratches at the mind like a hairshirt chafes the body» — Peter Howell, The Toronto Star

The character Leon has created, the rigorous Brunetti, is far from the hairshirt that the task in life he has set himself might make him seem.

Self - righteous «sceptics» pounce on mistakes by scientists to denounce the whole man - made global warming thesis as a leftish, hairshirt - wearers» plot.

Hairshirts are not enough.