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Example sentences for: flesh-and-blood

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In Great Expectations , she never makes the leap from erotic object to flesh-and-blood human, and that's not just the fault of the script and director.
Remember, the Virgin Mary may be a timeless symbol, but she is also a flesh-and-blood woman, and Ofili is hardly the first artist to eroticize the Virgin.
I don't subscribe to the standard critique of the Coens--that they are too cool and too clever by half, that they care more for wordplay than for flesh-and-blood characters.
The boxes and the collages are monuments to abstract affairs with flesh-and-blood women whom Cornell's psychology required him to flatten into paper effigies so that his imagination could go to work.
Suddenly, Smith said, the figures at the heart of Christianity weren't abstract theological mouthpieces but flesh-and-blood humans who spoke his language.