home truth

Example Sentences

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There is nothing more contemptible than a home truth that isn’t true.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2019

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

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018

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

Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George