That was the brutal truth, and she might as well face it right now.

But he'd told her nothing except the naked, brutal truth.

Only then, at that very moment, was the brutal truth borne in upon me.

To get down to it requires some brutal truth: Not everyone can have everything he or she wants, and that includes children.

The brutal truth, however, is that he has less than a year to live.

It makes them work harder to escape and that is the brutal truth.

"But sometimes they just tell you the brutal truth."

"It's time we stopped hiding a rather brutal truth from ourselves."

There are a few brutal truths in what he says.

I don't doubt your friend's sincerity - but as he's 80 the brutal truth is you might find yourself looking after him!