home truth
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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
There is nothing more contemptible than a home truth that isn’t true.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2019
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 George Eliot
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