Word: sugarcoat
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...death without fear, and it is not easy to care for the poor, meek, and lowly; yet that is what we are called to do. The pieces of advice that Pope John Paul II offered to the world varied wildly in their popularity, yet he never once tried to sugarcoat his beliefs or to craft them in a more popular form. John Paul II saw truth in this world of nuance, gradation, and compromise and was not afraid to make it known...
...current Intel CEO, who will step down in May, went into mea culpa mode. "This is not the Intel we know," he wrote in an e-mail to employees. At an industry conference last year, he literally got down on his knees and begged forgiveness. "We don't sugarcoat our issues," says Barrett. "If you operate at the leading edge, you can't be afraid of failure...
...violence, the combat--we recognize that's the part of the game people want to play," says Major Chris Chambers, deputy director of the America's Army development team. "We treat it openly and honestly. We have a death animation. We don't sugarcoat it. It's real--" He stops and corrects himself. "It's not real; it's simulated. But we're simulatingreality." But it has to be fun too, right? "Bottom line, it's gotta be fun," Chambers agrees. "If it's not fun, you don't have a game...
...skeptical bloggers were spitting challenges to the authenticity of the CBS documents on Internet sites like freerepublic.com and powerlineblog.com No typewriter in 1972, the Netizens argued, could have produced those papers, which alleged that Bush violated orders to take a physical and that his superiors were pressed to "sugarcoat" his evaluation...
...bought and sold. Ten years ago, Colonial Williamsburg, the open-air museum in Williamsburg, Va., presented an outdoor re-enactment of a 1773 estate auction that included the sale of slaves. The hope may have been that the performance would help Williamsburg fight off criticism that it tended to sugarcoat the rough realities of colonial history. But the re-enactment was met by a public protest organized by the Virginia coordinator of the N.A.A.C.P., who complained that it turned pain into entertainment...