Sentences with phrase «blunt truth»

Because entrepreneurs have reason to avoid speaking blunt truths to power, the prominence and achievements of some have been used to excuse existing arrangements.

because, in my experience with the blog, phrases like those are used when showing an example of what not to do, or as blunt truth meant to snap you to attention the same way a slap in the face would every post I have read from matt's blog, I have read with a critical eye, so I can try to understand the exact meaning, and I have only once found a logical problem with anything that was said, and that was when a small fact was omitted that wouldn't have actually changed the point of the post

His performance in Revolutionary Road, like the movie as a whole, was fairly divisive — it's probably peak Shannon in terms of his initial attention - getting persona as an impassioned lunatic, with an emphasis in this case on blunt truth - telling in a context of widespread repression.

«For me, the blunt truth is men run the world.

«The blunt truth is that Macy's does not give consumers a reason to visit its stores,» Saunders wrote in a note after the Macy's earnings announcement in mid-May.

That's the blunt truth.

Although ICOs may look like a threat to VC funding altogether, the blunt truth is that ICOs can never fully replace VCs.

But this is the blunt truth.

Whitehead is speaking out of a high idealism when he says, «it is the blunt truth we want».5 Usually it is the last thing we want.

It is this total inability to speak the blunt truth, directly face to face to half tryers and shirkers which has been his most absent quality that ALL top managers need.

In her book Statecraft, published in 2002, Lady Thatcher wrote, «The blunt truth is that the rest of the European Union needs us more than we need them.»

For that dose of the blunt truth — «the aim here is to enable people who are not experts to understand what needs to be changed in order to address what is an unsustainable inflation in Medicaid costs,» he says — Mr. Ravitch has a Legislature ready to go to war with him.

«The blunt truth is that Andrew Cuomo has a [nearly] $ 31 million war chest, and he is famously vengeful,» Nixon said.

He said state health departments are often cautious, and focus on avoiding public alarm rather than delivering the blunt truth.

And the blunt truth is that Andrew Cuomo has a [nearly] $ 31 million war chest, and he is famously vengeful.

«The blunt truth is that Andrew Cuomo has [a nearly] $ 31 million war chest, and he is famously vengeful.

«The blunt truth is the country does not believe that when they look at us right now.

David Cameron's negotiation was a valiant final attempt to make it work for Britain - and I want to thank all those elsewhere in Europe who helped him reach an agreement - but the blunt truth, as we know, is that there was not enough flexibility on many important matters for a majority of British voters.

«The blunt truth is that Andrew Cuomo has a (nearly) $ 31 million war chest, and he is famously vengeful,» Nixon said.

The blunt truth is, the country doesn't believe that when they look at us right now.

He also said the «blunt truth» he told Nigerians during his declaration of interest that Buhari and the APC had nothing good to offer Nigeria had pierced the conscience of APC leaders and given them wounded heart.

With all the welcome emphasis on relevance and historical storytelling, the blunt truth is that you can not understand science unless you know a reasonable amount at an appropriate level.

The blunt truth is «yes!»

The group dynamic of Annie, Helen, Lillian, and the rest of the bridesmaids Megan (Melissa McCarthy, a standout as a tomboy unafraid to speak the blunt truth), Rita (Wendi McLendon - Covey, as a mother who's lived with sex - starved boys for too long), and Becca (Ellie Kemper, as the wide - eyed innocent), which has difficulty finding much for the latter two to do, fades, and we come back to Annie's fear of becoming distanced emotionally and by location from her best friend.

«The blunt truth is that men still run the world.»

The blunt truth is that most authors won't do very well.

Look, while i see what you are saying, you also have to think about this lil bit of blunt truth.

The blunt truth is that I kind of love Battlefront.

But the blunt truth is that Earth Space Colonies isn't worth the asking price or the effort needed to download and play it.

Yes, some of the endings to the quests are suitably dark, but the blunt truth is that without a lot more text to expand on these events and give players time to actually get invested they can't even come remotely close to something like the Bloody Baron storyline from the Witcher 3.

Here's the blunt truth: If Drakes» Deception had JUST been released on the PS4 for the first time on any console, it would be in the conversation for the 2015 Game of the Year.

At the same time, the unrelenting rise in greenhouse - gas emissions in developing countries is propelled by an unbending reality identified way back in 2005 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when he said, «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

When he was Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair put it this way in 2005: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

«The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge,» he said.

The numbers contain a blunt truth.

In 1988, speaking before Congress, Dr. Hansen laid out a blunt truth, «It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.»

Since it serves no one to tiptoe around the blunt truths of incidents like this, it should be noted, again, as always, that climate change is helping to make conditions more amenable to wildfires like this one — hotter, drier weather means an increased likelihood of fires.

The blunt truth is that what China decides to do in the next decade will likely determine whether or not mankind can halt — or at least ameliorate — global warming.

Unfortunately, the blunt truth is that we have no guarantees that our work, including efforts here at Slaw, will survive much beyond our death.

The blunt truth is that you always must have experience related to the job you want because employers don't hire for potential.