Sentences with phrase «from uncomfortable facts»

As a Holocaust fable, I guess it gets a message across, but I'm not sure for whom or what exactly that message is: maybe, tell your children the truth, don't try to protect them from uncomfortable facts?

Their journey — physical and metaphorical — takes them to some very dark places, and though the film has elements of gentle humor that leaven the proceedings — and two fine performances from Jay Duplass («Transparent «-RRB- as Nick and Linas Phillips (Young Adolescents) as Conrad — we can never get away from the uncomfortable fact that writer / director Davis (editor on Duplass's documentary Kevin) has made a conscious decision to put a mass murderer at the center of his story.

Not exact matches

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

Their books fly off the Christian bookstore shelves dispensing whatever ad hoc explanation or special pleading might be required to salvage the evangelical belief system from the perils of uncomfortable fact.

But Ashley was unhappy with the fact the pair had been photographed emerging from a curry house in London and uncomfortable with the fact that much of their business was being played out in the public eye.

The fact that this belly wrap shrinks your belly fast is great, but one common thing I hear from postpartum mom's is how uncomfortable their stomachs feel after giving birth.

(This is aside from the fact that nobody present complaining about the comments means little - for one, it is not clear from the video that Ahmed could hear Harry calling him a «little Paki»; nor is it straightforward that an Asian man would feel confident in a very white environment to say he was uncomfortable being called a «Paki», especially to a prince).

It is an uncomfortable fact that the soldiers who ran the Nazi death camps and the soldiers who liberated them were all acting under orders from superiors.

And he admits that the libertarians who backed his candidacy for an open seat, including former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his son, Senator Rand Paul (R - KY), would probably be uncomfortable with the fact that he receives a check every year from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for royalties from licensing a patent based on work for his undergraduate thesis.

Christy was in fact included; the ensuing period must have been uncomfortable for him, as it included a major correction to his UAH troposhere temperature record, and the ascendant credibility of the competing tropospheric analysis from RSS.

These important facts are withheld from the audience, and it gave me the uncomfortable feeling that we are still being played, just a bit.

Even though learners benefit from discovering these essential facts about CQ, they can easily become overwhelmed, bored, frustrated or uncomfortable in a classroom situation.

I had been to several dealerships and had found a model car I liked but I had felt uncomfortable w my sales person, which is why I cam to Park Place Lexus Grapevine, really I could have got a car from any dealer, but I was looking for the sales person who could be a professional and handle the fact that even if my husband was there, it was my car and my decision at all times.

Lots of little details line up to niggle, stuff like the odd steering wheel (flat - bottomed, apparently comprised of offcuts from five or six other steering wheels), the fact that the wheel obscures the instruments for taller drivers, the uncomfortable seats, the engine's unsophisticated, torque - heavy delivery and the way your left knee bangs on the heater controls.

In fact, even the third row is far from uncomfortable, though third row legroom has been compromised slightly in the interest of additional legroom in the second row.

People are very good at rationalising their actions and so become exceptional at figuring out reasons why this or that uncomfortable fact doesn't really apply to them, just to others, or how that uncomfortable fact isn't actually a fact because the presenter of said fact isn't from within the industry and so doesn't know better.

As a person who does not believe that humans should have the choice to take another's life - from the womb to the tomb - I expected this book, despite the fact that I'm not easily offended, to be an uncomfortable read.

I do not think I have seen anyone really explore the fact that that behind all the excited noises coming from the indie side of the business, there is an uncomfortable suspicion forming that the whole idea of an «indie author» is increasingly suspect.

Consider these uncomfortable facts from the ASPCA:

Many factors contribute to making nail trims a dreaded activity, among which is the fact that constant stimulus from long toenails contacting the ground sensitizes the nail bed, making it very uncomfortable for the feet to be handled and predisposing them to the development of arthritis.

That doesn't change the fact that Emma snarks at other dogs, making other people uncomfortable and keeping us from hanging out with friends if their dogs are near.

In fact, Hyer's story has been mentioned everywhere from People, Huffington Post and The Telegraph, and has likely caused many a very uncomfortable dinner for men around the world when confronted by their fiancées about the planning that went into their own blasé proposals.

In fact many of the themes present would have made publishers uncomfortable in 2004, from repeated terrorist events throughout the USA to American soldiers acting as suicide bombers (noted by your secretary Jodi in the Miami Beach level).

From Carl Sagan's magnificent Cosmos episode, «Harmony of the Worlds», about Johannes Kepler, he says of Kepler: «When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts.

In fact, online and telephone based services have been especially helpful for clients who find that they (1) have few qualified counselors or coaches in their area, (2) feel uncomfortable meeting with a therapist in person and, (3) prefer to connect with a provider from the comfort of their home (or office).