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And love closes our eyes to all the unhappy truths."

Conceal the unhappy truth as long as it is possible.

Here, it was obvious the denizens of the sanctuary were telling the unhappy truth.

Anger gave way to an unhappy truth.

The unhappy truth is that foreign armies have been marching backwards and forwards across Lebanon for hundreds of years.

The unhappy truth is that only force or its prospect is likely to move the Serbian irreconcilables.

But the unhappy truth was that all the clues added up to naught, and all the tests revealed nothing.

Which is another unhappy truth.

In her blithe, willfully blind way, Emma takes this unhappy truth to its logical extreme.

This well-intentioned idea ignores an unhappy truth: There is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays.

But the unhappy truth is that such determined investigations of alleged brutality by Israeli occupying forces are the exception, not the rule.

Tommy stuck to things better than Robin ever had, and Mother had just repeated this unhappy truth for the third time.

The happy and unhappy truths inherent in that realization will intrigue, plague, and haunt me to the end of my time.

But the unhappy truth is that much of what is on display is bland and tasteless after traveling long distances to market.

He writes: "If nothing else, these two pictures taken together underline the unhappy truth that, in the Balkans, little has changed over the past seventy years."

It was a sad and unhappy truth, but it was one that he was duty-bound to tell General Grant.

Regrettably, Marisa Kantor Stark's first novel demonstrates these unhappy truths.

The unhappy truth is that there is no apparent return to a time when students' fantasies were less dark and the means to act them out less available.

To the Editor: John Tierney's column about methamphetamines includes unhappy truths for those of us who have friends and family struggling with addiction.

One trenchant chapter, "The Dark Side of Star Wars," examines the unhappy truth that any weapons powerful enough to serve for defense must serve for offense as well.

And the unhappy truth was that they had achieved exactly nothing further since Hauptman and the courier had taken themselves back through the Basilisk terminus to Manticore.

Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for some time she refused to submit to them.

By impugning the Duessan source, Redcross and Una can discredit the shadow of unhappy truth cast on their relation by Duessa's distortion.

The unhappy truth that what they had all been quietly hoping for had not materialized: a call or broadcast declaring that a coup attempt in Spain had ended with the assassination of its leader.

And then she noticed her father scrutinizing her again, his good eye like a bright blue light that somehow seemed to transfix her and melt away her artifice, until he saw the unhappy truth.

But time has passed and I see the unpleasant truth.

A man could take only so many unpleasant truths in one morning.

I hated having my face ground into the unpleasant truth.

We have no need to be protected from unpleasant truths.

It was an unpleasant truth, which for different reasons, neither of her parents would accept.

A minstrel can tell an unpleasant truth with more success, sometimes, than anyone else.

Or when they refuse to face unpleasant truths, like good and evil.

A strange quality in his tone made it seem as though he had discovered an unpleasant truth.

He spoke with candor when others might hide the unpleasant truth.

We are not known for our refusal to look at unpleasant truths."

"At your urging then, I will reveal an unpleasant truth.

The abbot spread his hands, as though admitting an unpleasant truth.

She had said nothing of it, for she wanted no doctors telling her some unpleasant truth.

Men who were accustomed to facing up to unpleasant truths found themselves backing off.

And with it came the power of those people who warn that bad things will happen if accountants report unpleasant truths.

It's great for my self-confidence, but it has taught me some unpleasant truths about marketing.

"It means sometimes we're forced to face unpleasant truths, aren't we?"

Every once in awhile he would look up from the work to the empty valley below, as though to remind himself of the unpleasant truth.

He's always forcing me to face unpleasant truths for perfectly irrelevant reasons of his own.

Shedding that much debt would require unpleasant truths to be faced.

Having officers so sharp made for pleasant work much of the time, but it also meant that unpleasant truths came right out into the open.

Sometimes the public needs to hear unpleasant truths, even if those truths make them feel worse about their country.

The simple, unpleasant truth is that we are probably busier than we ever have been.

Sorry that you have been deprived-of the right to know even unpleasant truths."

Yes," Gilbert said sadly, in the voice of a man discovering an unpleasant truth.

It was a place for unwelcome truths about the human body.

Before these unwelcome truths there was nothing to say.

Did I hit upon an unwelcome truth?

Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a half-penny."

Baudolino is a sort of court jester, the only person who can speak unwelcome truths to the emperor.

Unwelcome truths are not popular.

I knew what he meant, the unwelcome truth he would force me to speak-but the truth lay between us, and must be told.

Just as Jesus had to bear the unwelcome truth (7:7) so will the Spirit (16:8).

"Count Ramscrest speaks the unwelcome truth, as usual," the prince conceded, to universal amusement.

"I think the media and TV exposed a truth- an unwelcome truth, an unhappy one, but an important one.

In effect Jones's book revealed an unwelcome truth which no one really wanted to hear and which the service was able easily to diffuse and ignore.

Temar's grimace acknowledged that unwelcome truth.

The books also contain material on the hysterical abuse elicited by his exposure of unwelcome truths, for which he was never forgiven by the commissars.

That was a devastating and unwelcome truth, and an unusually pointed reproof from Aunt Kade.

To blurt out unwelcome truths-- Mr. Entwhistle's train of thought came to an abrupt check.

Milgram argued that the ethical criticism provoked by his experiments was because his findings were disturbing and revealed unwelcome truths about human nature.

For it is one of the dictums of the discipline of anthropology that it will reveal unwelcome truths:

St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth.

And it didn't take long for Miriam to discover another unwelcome truth: her servants had been chosen, it seemed, on the basis of their ignorance and tractability.

To be sure, such fellows have occasionally been responsible for the downfall of Ubars, and themselves, because of their desire to protect the throne from unwelcome truths.

Freak Occurrence The players in this drama have also learned an unwelcome truth: That the criminal justice system can grind through a case for almost two years and satisfy no one.

As British economists know only too well, it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion.

'Unwelcome Truths' For some American Jewish leaders and Israeli officials that came as something of a shock - even though it only restated longstanding American positions.

But for Spacks, rereading-though satisfying for pure literary analysis-can reveal unwelcome truths about our past selves, and cause disenchantment-in the most literal sense-with the books we used to love.

Of course Cora was a rather unbalanced and excessively stupid woman, and she had been noted, even as a girl, for the embarrassing manner in which she had blurted out unwelcome truths.