Sentences with phrase «plain face of the facts»

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In fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wrong.

Aside from its literary excellence, the glory of this ancient drama lies in the intellectual honesty of Job, who, faced on one side with a venerable theory and on the other with plain facts of experience, insisted that the facts must have precedence.

One manifestation is modern - day conservatives are more difficult to persuade than non-conservatives using documented facts or reasonable inferences, particularly on issues where there's a partisan axis, even in the face of a robust scientific consensus or just plain common sense.