Sentence examples for ruthless honesty from inspiring English sources

His players describe a ruthless honesty in Bradley's approach.

"The Florist's Daughter" confronts this central irony with ruthless honesty.

Each had an explanatory card that detailed – with ruthless honesty – the experiences the artist had endured.

Boyfriends are treated with ruthless honesty, as are periods, STDs, abortion, cramped apartments and crappy jobs.

I remember her ruthless honesty – she is the only teacher who both praised and also wrote "rubbish" across my essays.

Requiring no corset, the dress implies freedom; in its starched purity, it suggests a challenge — to maintain a ruthless honesty with herself and with the world.

Even though the movie drifts uneasily between satire and realism, and its visions of military school and bohemia feel secondhand, it maintains a ruthless emotional honesty.

"Even though the movie drifts uneasily between satire and realism, and its visions of military school and bohemia feel secondhand, it maintains a ruthless emotional honesty," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.

The quality that drives people crazy about him is the same quality that makes his novels remarkable, which is his ruthless, tenacious honesty, his refusal to write the world as we wish it would be, and to engage instead as truthfully as he can with this transcendently weird business of our existence together on earth.

They require ruthless self-honesty and a little detective work, both of which will go a long way toward helping you undo years of disguising your feelings.

And for this, we need ruthless self-honesty and the willingness to welcome and embrace intervention from those who can see us more clearly than we are willing to see ourselves.