Sentences with phrase «tells uncomfortable truths»

To the extent that Bacevich tells uncomfortable truths about the ambiguities, including moral ambiguities, that brought us to our present circumstance in the Middle East, his argument is to be welcomed.

The same spirit precipitates the conjuring of characters like Charlot or Eugène Ionesco disguised as a clown; both are referenced in her writings, adding to the rich genealogy of jesters and fools telling uncomfortable truths to power.

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These are real reasons not to walk away from Facebook, and they're also telling ones: They reflect the uncomfortable truth that while the internet may have expanded our virtual communities, it's also resulted in fragmented echoes of our physical communities.

Why is it that in EVERY other matter we want the clear un-mingled truth, yet when it comes to heaven and hell we just want to tell people words to make them feel good and not uncomfortable.

Tell us the truth when your studies lead you to new ideas that might stretch our faith and make us uncomfortable, and those of us who stick around will never forget that you trusted us with a challenge.

This requires rocking the boat sometimes... by asking questions, telling stories, and teaching truths that make some religious people uncomfortable or even upset.

He is telling people an uncomfortable truth.

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 know it's uncomfortable but the simple truth of the matter is the older generation — my generation — the majority voted Brexit, whereas for the younger generation — I'm talking under 25, but indeed a wider group, voted to remain,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

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.

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.

Starting on Halloween and extending for about the next 48 hours, Thanks for the Trouble explores how Parker's unexpected encounter with Zelda, and her fearless willingness to tell the truth no matter how uncomfortable it is, allows him to open his eyes to a world he's been largely blind to since his father died.

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?