home truth

Example Sentences

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Margaret, who in Morgan’s hands becomes a cross between a Shakespearean fool and Billy Wilder’s faded film star, Norma Desmond, is always on hand to administer an infusion of passive-aggressive home truth.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

Jefferson, Brandeis, the Roosevelts all recognized this home truth.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2016

This is a Houellebecq home truth, but a stale, ungenerous one—one that does not extend the same consideration that many women have undoubtedly extended his work.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

The point, the subtle message of the evening, was underlining a grandmotherly home truth: You get what you pay for.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2012

It’s an awfully nice way, if you want to give a person a home truth, to put it into a story.

From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.