Sentences with phrase «inconvenient truths»

Perhaps science does present culture with evidence of inconvenient truths.

Cool artists that we've noticed in the past, including Michael Assiff and Mikkel Carl, show up here to drop a few «inconvenient truths,» but hey, should art do that occasionally?

In fact, that is probably why Incorrigibles, who militantly discourage discussion of health issues, resort to bully tactics: They make people who point out inconvenient truths sufficiently uncomfortable that they shut up or go away.

At his first stop, Rotterdam's World Database of Happiness, Weiner is confronted with a few inconvenient truths.

Better, therefore, to redirect the public's attention toward shiny objects like charter schools, and vouchers than to acknowledge such inconvenient truths.

And those who are so blinded by ideology or self - interest that they can't bear to face certain inconvenient truths howl in outrage...

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The 11th Hour (Unrated) Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this dour documentary delineating unnerving inconvenient truths about the dire state of the environment.

But this is a horror movie with many inconvenient truths to tell about the ways in which we are willingly destroying our planet.

Activists will also say things that might step on someone's toes or speak inconvenient truths if it's to further a cause they care about.

We appreciate the president's call for openness to inconvenient truths.

At least not when it comes to inconvenient truths that mess with their self - interest or self - identity.

It's an increasingly pressing question in an age of inconvenient truths: the melting of the ice...

Much of what has been posted are inconvenient truths about the Mormon religion that you all simply choose to ignore, overlook or claim we «don't understand.»

«We are doing what journalists throughout said mainstream media are supposed to do: challenge the conventional wisdom, hold politicians» feet to the fire, ask tough questions, report facts that are in many cases inconvenient truths for career politicians, and give a voice to the millions of people worldwide who have had theirs taken away from them by world elites who consider the ordinary person beneath them,» Boyle said, pointing to Breitbart's record July traffic as evidence Americans «hunger for something different.»

Underperforming employees who are not ambitious will weed themselves out of the process when an employer discloses his or her inconvenient truths.

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

Skoll also partnered with Steven Spielberg and Indian billionaire Anil Ambani to found content creation house Amblin Partners, and in July, Participant unveiled the highly anticipated sequel to the 2006 global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

In 2006, the movie An Inconvenient Truth publicized a timetable for global annihilation.

Duarte is probably best - known for its work with Al Gore and the environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, transforming Gore's passion and mounds of research into Oscar - winning storytelling.

Also, David Guggenheim, the film director behind An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for «Superman,» has been brought on to tell Malala's story in a documentary.

Disaster films nearly always contain some not - so - subtle commentary on our mistreatment of the environment, but this one was so topical upon its release that it could have been shown as a double - feature with An Inconvenient Truth.

Here's an inconvenient truth: U.S. businesses still use about 21 million tons of paper each year.

I don't watch An Inconvenient Truth.

She worked on a film with David Guggenheim, who directed An Inconvenient Truth, about the topic.

He lavishes attention on his film production house, Participant Media, which was behind Oscar - winning documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and The Cove.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

She does reckon we've achieved a watershed in popular environmental consciousness, between Hurricane Katrina, An Inconvenient Truth and the Stern Review, and Bush 43's state of the union acknowledgement of climate change in 2007.

But prices also surged, an inconvenient truth for an agency committed to affordable housing, forcing Canadians to take on bigger mortgages to keep pace.

To push for passage of the provisions in the Dream Act, Cendy and others agreed to share their stories on www.thedreamisnow.org, a website launched Tuesday by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim («Waiting for Superman» and «An Inconvenient Truth») and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

It's also the dirtiest of the fossil fuels, an inconvenient truth that doesn't appear to bother Abbott.

From the moment Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» hit the screens in May 2006, people have grown more aware of the crummy state our planet is in.

Trump might be upset about high oil prices, but there's the inconvenient truth that one of the major factors propping them up is U.S. foreign policy

This is the wealth management industry's inconvenient truth.

The inconvenient truth that his party still only sits at 35 percent in the latest public opinion poll could add momentum to those pushing to replace the Wildrose leader.

My response to «An inconvenient truth» was with regard to his assertion regarding prayer being responsible for the abolition of slavery.

Not saying Jews were not involved, but the inconvenient truth that ROMAN catholics, in particular, like to avoid, is the involvement of ROMANS.

An inconvenient truth of mainline Protestantism is that, despite efforts to the contrary, it remains the stronghold of WASP Christianity.

Curiously, such a mindset is often aware of the «inconvenient truth» that no one, not even the Roman Pontiff, has the authority to change the dogmas of the Catholic Church.

A decade after the controversial documentary An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the national conversation, Al Gore is back with an updated look at the state of our planet.

(Of course, these things are pretty much present in any church, but that's an inconvenient truth....)

Any dissent from the authoritative teaching of our Holy Church has to contend with the inconvenient truth that when we reject the Church and its teaching we reject Jesus Christ Himself.

It's an inconvenient truth that Jesus died for our sins and that God wants us to turn away from our sinful lives.

it's an inconvenient truth that religion always bends to science — never ever the other way around.

it's an inconvenient truth that there's absolutely no substantiated evidence that jebus actually existed.

An inconvenient truth, you have made this claim a number of times without providing any supporting evidence.

Inconvenient truth..

Such an «inconvenient truth».

An inconvenient truth He wasn't from 2000 years ago??? Well that screws up my whole time machine theory.

Maybe this is why some people wish to abort persons like my father and me: Perhaps we confront them with the inconvenient truth of their own mortality and the ultimate futility of their existential rebelliousness.

The success of Gore's movie and book, An Inconvenient Truth, has consolidated public sentiment.