warts and all
Example Sentences
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Our cities remain rich places, warts and all.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
And though the book has its shortcomings, he rightly sees the movie as a kind of passkey into the history of the first half-century of Hollywood itself, warts and all.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Having spent nearly 50 years telling America’s stories, warts and all, Ken Burns knows better than to traffic in the reassurance business.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025
It is my job to try to bring you as clear a sense as I can of what is really going on at the heart of government, warts and all.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
Sainte-Beuve sought to paint the portrait of the man as he was, warts and all; but he did not care for a sitter who was not worth the most loving art.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander