Sentences with phrase «confronting brutal realities»

Me & Earl & the Dying Girl may be unafraid of confronting brutal realities but it has little interest in festering in sorrow and solemnity.

The film illustrates the lives of white and black families in rural Mississippi as they confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming, and friendship in a divided post World War II era.

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Be willing to confront the brutal facts of your reality.

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

If Owens was able to create an illusion of consistency, of steady progression towards a state of blissful serenity — which was instinctively reflected in the nature of his collections — he is now confronted by the intrusion of rude, brutal reality.