Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. But for the powerless who comprise the majority of this world's population, Inconvienient facts that affirm their very existence are their only truth. acknowledge sb as sth : sb 를 sth 으로 인정하다.

from 'Dear John'

http://bevets.com/dquotes.htm insofar as …하는 한에 있어서는 insofar as (its) being the birthplace of the Nicene Creed.

Up close, she was more beautiful than I'd first realized, but it had less to do with the way she looked than the way she was. up close : 바로 가까이에 A have something to do with B : A는 B와 관계있다.

broach ~ : (하기 힘든 이야기를) 어렵게 ~ 주제를 꺼내다

sneak : 들키지 않도록 살금살금 가다. brooze on my breath : 내 숨위에 술 -> 술냄새