scathingly honest

Simon's performance was, depending on how you view these things, either scathingly honest or just plain scathing.

And being scathingly honest, I came to the conclusion, that, no, everything I gave you was perfect and right.

Yet whenever the reader's frustration seems overwhelming, the authors drop in another scathingly honest quotation from Truffaut's private papers.

In talking about her own work Philip has said, "fiction is about telling lies, but you must be scathingly honest in telling those lies.

We know in scathingly honest detail the students' records and thinking, as well as the tactics, rationales and goals of Mr. Figueroa and his colleagues.

NME echoed this sentiment by stating that the album is "bleak...also utterly beautiful, scathingly honest, darkly hilarious and impossibly grandoise".

Acerbic, hard-hitting, unsentimental and scathingly honest, her take on reality is so potent - and even pungent - that many poets may seem benign, or even superficial, by comparison.