Sentences with phrase «more uncomfortable truths»

It bypasses the easiest targets to get at subtler, more uncomfortable truths about racism.

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.

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But the uncomfortable truth is that institutions that want to increase diversity must make an active effort to do it — proclaiming a desire to be more diverse doesn't persuade anyone.

Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.

The more subtle truth is that it would be an even greater failure were we made to feel more comfortable because we feel uncomfortable.

It's an uncomfortable fact that raises more questions than answers, but it's the truth, so there's not much we can do about it.

Otherwise, Nestlé's engagement in social media is likely to be nothing more than a whitewash, where those with the knowledge and evidence to show Nestlé is not telling the truth are either shut out and ignored, or accused of being «nasty» and «attacking people» simply for raising the uncomfortable truth that Nestlé is a highly unethical company that puts its own profits before the health and well - being of babies and their families.

I am sure the promise of the perfect match or soulmate sells more subscriptions than the uncomfortable truth: the bonding of similarly lonely and unhappy personality types — codependents and narcissists.

They are often uncomfortable trying once more date with dating women And it generally a little rusty feel truth be told, because it several years may have been, because it involved in any kind of dating.

The series uses their vanity to hold up a mirror and let the audience reckon with an uncomfortable truth: that we all put on performances in our own lives, some more convincingly than others.

Pam Grady: Ostensibly the story of an actress facing uncomfortable truths about aging head - on when she agrees to play a role in a revival of the play that made her famous, Clouds of Sils Maria is more intriguing in its exploration of the relationship between Juliette Binoche's star and the personal assistant (a dazzling Kristen Stewart in her Cesar Award - winning performance) she expects to fill her every needs — including the lonely void at the center of her life.

Horror, above any other genre, wraps uncomfortable societal truths in a more palatable packaging.

Making progress on this difficult issue is predicated on acknowledging an uncomfortable truth, one that can easily be demagogued: On average, due to a host of factors beyond their own control, including poverty, fatherlessness, and trauma, poor children of color are more likely to misbehave at school than are their peers.

But it's important to tell the hard, uncomfortable truth that it often does, and I see every day how DCPS policies make it harder, not easier, for my students to compete with their more advantaged counterparts.

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.

These vacancies bolster an uncomfortable truth: Illinois» marginalized students face more barriers to accessing high - quality education and supports.

Instead of addressing the uncomfortable truth that some educators are not the best fit at urban schools, or helping educators improve their practice to help them become more successful working with students who are different from them, schools go for the quick fix which, to them, means as a black educator you can expect to have difficult students in your class because you can handle them.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.

And as Elsie, Reba, and Riki's lives become more intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Jan Creamer, Chief Executive of ADI said: «We were uncomfortable with the message of this film, but the more we saw the repeated assertions that this elephant has been treated with love and affection and never been abused, we realized that we had to get the truth out.

However, an uncomfortable truth is that post-war and «almost contemporary» art dominates and, so far, has sold more easily at the fair than older pieces.