Sentences with phrase «modern hair shirt»
Once upon a time, we all figured extreme fuel efficiency would be the modern hair shirt — righteous but painful.
http://www.hybridcars.com/ Not exact matches
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.
Today's young man who doesn't annoy anyone and is «politically correct» wears pink shirt, dyes his hair and has got a pair of man boobs (that could very well be a «modern» personal trainer too)... If you compare this current day average Joe to 19th century young cowboy the major difference between them won't be clothes, hair cut or an accent changed through the centuries — it will be the difference in how men they are (the level of testosterone).