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

This home truth silenced the captain for the moment, but the next instant he startled us all with an utterly inconsequent question, having no reference to what he had before been speaking of.

From The Island Treasure by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)