He said he had spent his life serving " humanism and anti-fascism, " and felt " no need to dress myself in sackcloth and ashes ."
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"If this has been a year of moonlight and roses, " he wrote recently, " next year I expect is going to be sackcloth and ashes.
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Charlie Davidson at the Andover Shop in Cambridge, Mass ., had told me the same thing, although confessing that he was out of sackcloth and ashes.
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It just happens that in this version, Job wears leather instead of sackcloth and ashes; also, he seems to be caught up in some kind of creepy vampire movie.
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Rather than dressing her in sackcloth and ashes, she " may meet us friendly and smiling, as long as the smile is chaste and the dress is white ".
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Woe to you, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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The prophet Daniel recounted pleading to God : " I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes " ( Daniel 9 : 3 ).
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For those crepe hangers who thought today would be a day of sackcloth and ashes, I would just say today is the day when we began to move ahead in California,
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In the age of instant mass communication and lawsuits, sackcloth and ashes have become the uniform of the day for corporate officials trying to live down a product safety or service fiasco.
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"Look, if we went in with sackcloth and ashes and fired the whole White House staff, " the president told his press secretary, " that isn't going to satisfy these goddamn cannibals.
