home truth

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018

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

Still, out of the mouth of the simple one may sometimes hear a home truth.

From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines