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

Left out, especially, is the home truth that the Catholic Church has changed already.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018

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

I asked your darling, saintly sister just now which was the most wicked—to tell a polite lie, or a frightfully rude home truth.

From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.