Sentences with phrase «ugly reality»

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.

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.

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?

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.

I'd rather live in my quite ugly reality than in their rosy little world where the moment something goes south, the person who was harmed should take care of the zealots» feelings.

«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 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.

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.

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

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

I think that we are so far removed from the ugly realities of birth that we focus on having «pretty», «cozy», «comfortable» rather than on what being able to have access to care really means.

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.

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.»

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

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

The ugly realities have set in, and harsh truths come out in a brutal argument that lasts for the final 45 minutes of the film.

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.

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.

Some will hide the ugly reality behind improved content standards.

It is one of the ugly realities about school «choice» — and a blatant hypocrisy among those who preach «accountability»... but mostly for the public schools they demonize.

The letters that arrive from Johnny's dad reveal the ugly realities of combat — and the soldiers he carves and encloses begin to bear its scars.

It's an ugly reality that can lead to even uglier conflict when neither side is clear on the legalese of the situation.

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.

Moreover, she continues to use the word «euthanasia,» the catch and kill crowd's favorite misnomer and one that allows them to mask the ugly reality of feline genocide from the American public.

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.

The ugly reality is the cost of living is prohibitively expensive in New York.