face up to it

“I think that’s how he sees it genuinely himself - that we shouldn’t paper over the past, pretending what didn’t happen, that you have to face up to it. But then the objective is to look at the future.”

“I think that’s how he sees it genuinely himself — that we shouldn’t paper over the past, pretending what didn’t happen, that you have to face up to it. But then the objective is to look at the future.”

"And I also quite liked the period where me and my close collaborators knew that this was probably it, or this was it, but hadn't had to face up to it in the world."

They don’t bury the truth, they face up to it.

Sounds like hyperbole, but that’s the truth: They face up to it.