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
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
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 L. T. Meade
