The phrase "cruel truth" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a harsh or unpleasant reality or fact that one may not want to accept. Example: The therapist delivered the cruel truth to her patient – that her husband had been unfaithful.
The origin of this cruel truth lies in the nature of word learning.
And a cruel truth of diabetes care is that many oral medications prompt weight gain.
The cruel truth about "33 Revolutions Per Minute" — despite Mr. Lynskey's lovely writing — is that it is not quite art.
It is a cruel truth that the very restaurant boom Bibendum helped ignite also made it redundant.
Many people have these symptoms but the cruel truth is there is no reliable cure for any of them'.
The Boston culprits may now be feeling a glow of satisfaction at a good day's killing, but the cruel truth will soon dawn.
Soon the evening is descending into drink-fuelled fisticuffs, and Michael falls off the wagon into cruel truth-telling games in which the men's unspoken desires and internalised homophobia are exposed like wounds.
She understood that her own experience was a tiny atom beside the cold, hard masses of history and politics, full of cruel truths.
Although the book's protagonist does not find his voice as a professional orator until midway through his harrowing journey in a racially divided America, in Oren Jacoby's faithful but lifeless theatrical adaptation the hero often seems to be presiding at an invisible podium, providing us with crisp talking points about the cruel truths of the black experience.
It's the cruelest truth of the situation.
And the cruelest truth: the second cancer was caused by the curing of the first.
