the shocking truth
the terrible truth
the sad truth

But the sad truth is that it's very hard to get a lot of men to pay child support.

For the sad truth is that many do not return, a fact of which they are only too well aware.

The sad truth was I hadn't tried to shield myself.

Now, through his own mouth and mind, he has shown us the sad truth.

Would there were more hours in the day, that's the sad truth of it.

But the sad truth is, I just don't believe in the beach.

He didn't have the stomach to watch, and that was the sad truth.

The sad truth now is that these things are at risk for the first time in generations.

The sad truth is that we can never really know for sure.

But the nation and its leaders seem blind to a sad truth.