Sentences with phrase «of awkward truths»

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Denizens of the tech landscape are realizing there's a depressing amount of truth in their embarrassing portrayal on Silicon Valley as soulless, vapid, greedy, socially awkward opportunists.

For the modern highly educated person who believes «that truth is glimpsed momentarily and in fragments, that it lacks symmetry, that it is awkward and angular as it breaks through to us,» he suggests, the very phrasing of religious discourse in consistent, propositional statements will sound unreal (p. 42).

can you just imagine a top level club being so desperate that they would hire Wenger to manage their club... I guarantee that there is no truth to this story except the fact that he might have considered leaving Arsenal for a split second then he proceeded to lock himself in Kroenke's closet and threatened to harm himself with the plastic fork he always carries in his breast pocket, just in case there are free samples at the grocery store, until he was promised 2 more years... at which point they embraced one another in such an awkward fashion that Kroenke's mustache got stuck in Wenger's coat zipper... two hours or so later, once they were finally separated, they retired to Kroenke's private lounge where they watched his favourite movie «Major League» then played a quick game of Monopoly

We had been treated to a glimpse of a new kind of Boris, the version who is obliged to confront awkward truths and struggles to win over a dubious crowd.

Once an awkward, pencil - necked «social reject», Sean Nalewanyj is now a renowned natural bodybuilding and fat loss expert, best - selling fitness author, and creator of the wildly popular online muscle building program, «The Muscle Gain Truth No - Fail System».

A few core story beats aren't fully realized and there are some awkward moments of truth and fiction balancing but, nevertheless, the movie delivers a brutal and exceptionally honest look at the Bondurant Boys and their fascinating (not to mention dangerous) bootlegging days.

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All the elements for a breezy (or bloody) French window farce are in place, but once the tired quips start flying and the hitherto - unspoken truths start piling up, it's clear that the script has nothing to say and a very awkward way of saying it.

Love, Simon follows Simon Spier (played by Nick Robinson), a gay high school student who is struggling with how to tell his friends and family the truth about himself, while still navigating the awkward waters of high school.

Ruth's rise and rise will also force a majority of Irish people to face the awkward truth.

Claire Legrand's Some Kind of Happiness explores life's awkward silences, ruined moments and hidden truths.

it's May's occasional awkward overwriting... Still, the truth hidden inside the mystery of Freeze Frame is fascinating and Enzo Macleod is great fun to hang out with.

But the high road is the hard road and the university management tired of dealing with the awkward questions and the flack that comes with speaking truths that upset the gravy train.

Writing recently in The Conversation about the South African cricket scandal, Michelle Grattan pointed to politicians «who would prefer to overlook awkward parallels with conduct in politics — for instance the endemic tampering with the ball of truth.»