Sentences with phrase «by uncomfortable truths»

For them, Harry Potter began as an escape but cleverly brought them up to the challenge of a world beset by uncomfortable truths they would have to one day be adult enough to confront.

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Her essay follows a familiar deception, dancing around and outside the uncomfortable truths, and putting the cart before the horse, asserting that we can be justified and find peace by our actions independent of the God of the Bible.

This requires rocking the boat sometimes... by asking questions, telling stories, and teaching truths that make some religious people uncomfortable or even upset.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger in the document, Concerning Some Objections To The Church's Teaching On The Reception Of Holy Communion By Divorced And Remarried Members Of The Faithful, writes: «Assuredly, the word of truth can be painful and uncomfortable.

Still, one final but uncomfortable truth: what has climaxed as present «restructuring», started as wilful refusal to accept the result of a democratic election, by political blocs that lost.

The remarks by Blears, who takes pride in delivering uncomfortable truths to the Labour party, marks the most significant intervention by a member of the cabinet following private briefings about the leadership ambitions of some ministers.

Sharon Weinberger's groundbreaking book The Imagineers of War, however, reveals how that mythology is the result of some pretty tight PR control by DARPA, exposing as much as she can of a far more uncomfortable truth.

Clear your chest by having that uncomfortable conversation (you will feel better after speaking your truth!)

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials, often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.

As new terms of office begin this year, Fischerkeller encourages us to critically focus on the uncomfortable truths often overlooked in our society that require the immediate attention and action by our elected officials, and to recognize that Our State of the Union is relevant to each of us regardless of our political affiliation.

Such findings support the our research, supported by a large and growing body of evidence, that finds that silence is not accidental but has been socially constructed to create distance and defend ourselves from uncomfortable truths.

Not only do these partisans reject troubling information, their brains ameliorate the effects of this momentary cognitive unease by rewarding the brain for rationalizing away this uncomfortable truth.

Donna's submission is probably a bit too close to polemic to be taken seriously by the committee but contains several uncomfortable truths that many people won't want to hear.

While CAGW skeptics might at first blush celebrate the possibility of a single, non-climate related, non-partisan, science - based theory that explains the whole complex range of CAGW's social characteristics, acceptance of this theory also requires acceptance of a couple of pretty uncomfortable truths, and the ditching of at least one touchstone used by many (but by no means all) climate change skeptics.