Sentences with phrase «ugly realities»

Not without its faults and moments of creaky pretension, Blue Valentine manages at the end to provoke a real, resonant response to what it means to lose love to the ugly realities of living.

Season 2 follows the women of GLOW as they become local celebrities, confronting the good, the bad, and the ugly realities of their newfound fame.

In Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon, his exacting, tightly realized compositions are often so exhaustingly detailed on the surface as to suggest the shallowness and ugly realities of his subjects in the imagery alone — the underworld, the fashion world, the drug trade, and other such dubious enterprises.

This book forces us to confront the uncomfortable, often ugly realities of human nature, but Bloom uses a conversational style and deeply personal examples to make it more palatable.

The birth of the Web gave political purists a high podium to speak from, and online political activists are particularly intolerant of the ugly realities of the daily work of politics.

Plus there's the question of how to motivate those folks whose enthusiasm has hasn't survived the ugly realities of governing and the long years of the Great Recession and slow recovery.

Food blogs are perhaps spaces that should be free of ugly realities; dedicated only to idle chatter and kitchen high jinks.

Christian faith did not start as a retreat from life's ugly realities.

This early insight into the ugly realities of an industrial society, particularly the exploitation of men by other men and the church's placid indifference, was to change his pastoral ministry.

I am a Christian because Christianity gives me the language to lament and to doubt, «to confess the ugly realities» as Austin said — from the violence I observe in the world and in my heart to «to the sin of white America» which Emily Scott described as the attempt «to still the voice of a whole people and keep them from singing.»

An ugly reality where those same parents fear that even those lessons won't be enough.»

An ugly reality where too many parents must teach their children how «to try to survive» an encounter with the police.

But I also know that we can no longer ignore this ugly reality.

His answers on this appeared to intentionally misconstrue what was being asked — presumably in a bid to mask the ugly reality of the true scope and depth of the surveillance apparatus he commands.

They want to believe in the image so badly that they are willing to overlook the ugly reality underneath.

But it's done so by romanticizing one of the world's ugliest realities.

To do so is to gloss over the ugly reality of slavery — then and now — which, as we will see, actually takes away from the power of these passages.

After confronting the ugly reality of martyrdom, he undergoes a moment of deep spiritual purification, asking himself, «What you've been wanting, it's not real, secret martyrdom; it's a death for glory's sake, isn't it?

On this week when our newspapers reveal the ugly reality that evil and good grow alongside one another — in the world and even in our own hearts — the parable of the wheat and the weeds seems especially weighty.

Racism remains an ugly reality in our society.

It is an ugly reality across the spectrum.

My objective was to demonstrate why violence is not the appropriate response to legal abortions, in spite of the ugly reality of what takes place in an abortion — and in spite of the fact that the Church and society as a whole would approve of necessary violence to save the lives of toddlers facing death at the hands of a murderous assailant.

Thank you Gabrielle for illustrating the ugly reality behind the carefully curated images of homebirth.

One of the reasons I inspire such a visceral reaction from homebirth advocates it that I pull back the curtain on such carefully curated set - pieces and expose the ugly reality behind them.

«The blunt ugly reality is that too often, if you can make bail you are set free and if you are too poor to make bail you are punished,» said Cuomo.

In difficult times as it is and with ugly reality of funding the party in Opposition about to sink in, he should be congratulated and not attacked.

With the crew safely returned to the UK, Mr Blair turned his attention to the UK's relationship with Iran and back to the «sober and ugly reality» of terrorism.

In light of his censure and the ugly reality of his years - long pattern of sexual harassment, predation and intimidation of female staffers, Assemblyman Vito Lopez must not seek resignation and resign from the State Assembly without delay.

«like we earlier noted, Fulani herdsmen are no longer a distant story in our council but an ugly reality going by the recent invasion of farm Lands of the people of Umuehie village, Ngor Autonomous community by them and consequent destruction of farmlands and crops worth millions of Naira.»

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

She had no idea that she was different when she started kindergarten, but was quickly confronted with the ugly reality of bullying.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

As in «The New World,» that endless possibility soon crashes into the ugly reality of human nature.

Some will hide the ugly reality behind improved content standards.

Although Draw Your Weapons deeply addresses the controversy of protest and the ugly reality of torture and imprisonment, it reads quickly, giving a compellingly detailed, yet artfully poetic perspective on humans» response to violence.

«But critics say there's an ugly reality you don't see: Some AKC breeders raising diseased dogs, malnourished, living in their own filth.

They may seem to know what they're doing, but behind the friendly façade of pet stores often lies the ugly reality of these puppy mills.

It's an ugly reality that a tame, friendly, declawed cat makes an ideal experimental subject.

Her online artist statement doesn't try to aestheticise this ugly reality but on the contrary includes Lock The Gate's web site which states: «The residents of the Bylong Valley, like communities all around NSW, want action to protect land and water resources from coal mining.

Artificial flowers beautify the ugly reality that defines the gallery's location.

Because of this, N - S approximations which are perfectly adequate for modeling an airplane wing fail miserably when confronted with the ugly reality of climate.

Viking, the ugly reality is that there are systems for which we simply can not compute the future evolution with any computer which is less complex than the system itself.

Here is the ugly reality: None of our efforts to preserve and retrofit vintage buildings will be sustainable if we don't find ways to stop working on an ad - hoc, building - by - building basis We need to move upscale and start focusing on blocks of homes, distinct districts, or even entire neighborhoods.

But they were content to let the situation drift without resolution, rather than have to confront the ugly reality of the circumstances.

Write down all the ugly reality on paper so you can look it in the face and deal with it.

It reveals the ugly reality of «recruiters,» firms which apparently exist as walls between prospective employers and prospective employees, to protect the former from discrimination claims by the «wrong» types of applicants, to ensure the employer's «culture» is protected from those who «don't fit.»

Or, you can be facing the ugly reality that your spouse had an affair.

He captures dining rooms, game rooms and other sites of happy gatherings, as well as slave cabins that remind us of the uglier realities of America's past.

Sorry to jolt us all back to ugly reality after that perfect GORGEOUS COTTAGE FARMHOUSE post, haha, but we need to get over it and move on, right?

Not exact matches

But the reality is an ugly one, and even — and especially if — it complicates the picture some progressives have drawn of Israel as the evil oppressor, we should not ignore the truth.