the constant need to cut costs was a hair shirt, but one that the theater company had to live with
Recent Examples on the WebThis is a coming-of-age story in which the transition from adolescence to adulthood is akin to swapping one hair shirt for another. Jake Cline, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 Aiden needs neither hair shirt nor whip to self-flagellate, and Simone writes of depression with a visceral ache. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021 To toughen it up, Ford resorted to that longtime crossover hair shirt, the roof rack. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 July 2020 Asking billions of people to don an unwashed hair shirt wouldn’t work; the solution would have to be rapid technological innovation. Jon Gertner, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 Even a hair shirt worn voluntarily is uncomfortable. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020 Highlights from the list of 175 individual objects include a hair shirt and finger bone believed to have belonged to St. Nicholas -- better known as Santa Claus -- and relics from Christ's birthplace. Rory Sullivan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019 Might fashion be the next business to suffer as consumers put on their environmental hair shirts?Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019 On the evidence in these pages, a hair shirt will not be in Sunstein’s future. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 20 June 2019 See More