Sentences with phrase «uncomfortable truth»

With her radio show, she reveals uncomfortable truths about the ways in which blacks and whites interact.

The piece below, however, contains some very uncomfortable truths for all Labour people.

Her style was calm, collected and, as the «nasty party» reference suggests, not afraid to point out uncomfortable truths in order to help her party win power.

Throughout history, banned books are often those that push boundaries, lead us to question the way we live and reveal uncomfortable truths.

It's your parental instinct to want what's best for your child, and sometimes that means facing uncomfortable truths, one of which is that your child might have a learning disability.

Nor should we ignore the capacity of humans to avoid uncomfortable truths that may require us to change our habits.

We're progressive environmental advocates who pull no punches and speak sometimes uncomfortable truths to power.

I don't know whether we've been unwilling to address uncomfortable truths as much as we have struggled to address those truths.

They raise standards, promote professional values and tackle uncomfortable truths.

The second uncomfortable truth is that we do have a school - to - prison pipeline.

True peace in our time requires mainstream climate science to acknowledge a few uncomfortable truths.

The increasingly uncomfortable truth, unfortunately, is that we law schools are stuck between these two extremes.

«And I'm proud that our industry, faced with uncomfortable truths, has vowed to change the way we do business.

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.

No matter what there was not to like about Jesse, one always felt that he at least was making an effort to expose uncomfortable truths.

It bypasses the easiest targets to get at subtler, more uncomfortable truths about racism.

Selected pieces from Naming The Money were also shown as part of Uncomfortable Truths at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007

In the same vein as 2007's «Juno» and 2011's «Young Adult,» «Tully» unearths uncomfortable truths in a wry, wise way.

In Get Out, Peele hides uncomfortable truths about race inside the Trojan horse of a crowd - pleasing thriller.

Such findings support the our research, supported by a large and growing body of evidence, that finds that silence is not accidental but has been socially constructed to create distance and defend ourselves from uncomfortable truths.

Jones» eerie story of a moon base worker who discovers uncomfortable truths about himself during a three year solo mission certainly achieved that.

Holzer is known for using the power of words in unexpected places to uncover uncomfortable truths.

If I were to ever write stories that contained uncomfortable truths I think I should consider Lewis» method.

However uncomfortable this truth may be, it is not in our new view a wholesale excuse to use that same contextomy to justify a decision that is good for business but not forward - looking for our members.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

We don't use humor in this article because we think that particular history is funny, but because sometimes comedy helps us broach uncomfortable truths that we would otherwise avoid.

Eleanor Rathbone was an outstanding backbencher, who never thought twice about voicing uncomfortable truths to the government.

In doing so we localise the problem in an individual and as such seek to avoid the wider uncomfortable truths about the society in which such abuses take place.

The remarks by Blears, who takes pride in delivering uncomfortable truths to the Labour party, marks the most significant intervention by a member of the cabinet following private briefings about the leadership ambitions of some ministers.

For them, Harry Potter began as an escape but cleverly brought them up to the challenge of a world beset by uncomfortable truths they would have to one day be adult enough to confront.

Kind and pointed and impossibly eloquent about certain uncomfortable truths, 20th Century Women is an invitation to have ultimate conversations about how we ruin our children with our best intentions and how that has always been so and will always be so.

Don't be surprised if Awkward teases uncomfortable truths out, sparking debate — but at least you're all friends, right?

«This calls for us to get into the muck and say uncomfortable truths.

For me that's the biggest uncomfortable truth.

However, one inescapable — and deeply uncomfortable truth underlying these latest figures is that certain groups of pupils continue to more likely to be excluded than others: boys; pupils with SEN; pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals; and pupils from certain minority ethnic backgrounds.

She completed a residency at Tate St Ives between 1998 and 2000, and has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art at the V&A, London, in 2007, and more recently, Migrations at Tate Britain, Keywords at the International Institute of Visual Arts and Tate Liverpool (2013/14) and Burning Down the House at the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2014).

Inelegant responses — a recent furore reveals uncomfortable truths around how intellectuals and writers react to contentious views.

Denial is a private psychological defense mechanism against uncomfortable truth.

Donna's submission is probably a bit too close to polemic to be taken seriously by the committee but contains several uncomfortable truths that many people won't want to hear.

While CAGW skeptics might at first blush celebrate the possibility of a single, non-climate related, non-partisan, science - based theory that explains the whole complex range of CAGW's social characteristics, acceptance of this theory also requires acceptance of a couple of pretty uncomfortable truths, and the ditching of at least one touchstone used by many (but by no means all) climate change skeptics.

In light of all that — and we're only scratching the surface when it comes to privacy - related incidents and uncomfortable truths Zuckerberg has had to answer for — it sure sounds extremely glib to pretend that Facebook cares about user privacy as much as Apple, or that Cook's remarks are out of place and «not aligned with the truth.»