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
He was much more affected by Beatrice's evident perturbation than Beatrice was by his home truth, and was much slower in recovering.
From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams
