She did not sugar-coat the message, just said flatly where she stood. ❋ Don C. Reed (2010)
Democrats abdicated on one of their basic congressional responsibilities -- there is no easy way to sugar-coat this reality. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)
I'll echo what was said above, but not sugar-coat it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“The misinformation … certainly seemed to me an attempt to sugar-coat the whole transaction,” Mr. Coffman said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Let's not sugar-coat this: The Nationals' defense the last few days has been atrocious. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Geez — could you at least sugar-coat your ravening hunger for "dirt"? ❋ Christopher Snyder (2011)
Slavery was nothing but sheer barbarism, no matter how much some people may try to sugar-coat it (not saying or implying that you were). ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's a tough pill to swallow and writer-director Don Roos, adapting from the novel by Ayelet Waldman, doesn't sugar-coat it. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)
In a town in which many people like to sugar-coat and plaster on fake smiles, Ellen Sandler is no-nonsense, and I hung on her every word. ❋ Abe Schwartz (2011)
We can "sugar-coat" our arguments with terms like "culture of death" and "choose life", but the real action (if anyone's up to it) is repenting, then taking on the sexual revolution and its concommitant legal right of "privacy". ❋ Unknown (2009)
Beckom said the corporate representatives told the employees they were “not going to sugar-coat it — they will be closing.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Burns doesn't sugar-coat his often unpalatable message for mass appeal, and uses every opportunity to commit career suicide – watch his cheekily subversive turn on BBC News, easily flummoxing a tediously professional Huw Edwards. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Fears that Crystal Bridges would sugar-coat American art may be true in the sense that it lacks the latest from profane or transgressive artists like Paul McCarthy, say, or Richard Prince. ❋ Judith H. Dobrzynski (2011)
There's no reason to sugar-coat the miserable experience most stock investors have had since the collapse of the technology-stock bubble beginning in March 2000. ❋ Tom Lauricella (2011)
"Nigel Cole [the director] has pulled off something we seldom do well in the States, a political movie that's touching and a lot of fun but doesn't sugar-coat the facts," she wrote in a recent feature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
