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Let's not sugar-coat this: The Nationals' defense the last few days has been atrocious.

What's up with the awful defense? 2011

Democrats abdicated on one of their basic congressional responsibilities -- there is no easy way to sugar-coat this reality.

Chris Weigant: Budget Season Overview Chris Weigant 2011

Beckom said the corporate representatives told the employees they were “not going to sugar-coat it — they will be closing.”

Case Study: Rite Aid Closings Sweeping Nation « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

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: HuffPost Review: The Other Woman Marshall Fine 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).

Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery 2010

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".

Ideology and the destruction of body and soul 2009

I'll echo what was said above, but not sugar-coat it.

Greener Building Codes: Cool But Costly « PubliCola 2010

Geez — could you at least sugar-coat your ravening hunger for "dirt"?

Excerpt from "Leanna Strikes Out on Her Own" [W-I-P] Christopher Snyder 2011

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.

This week's new comedy 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.

An Uneven Span Across Time Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011