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Example sentences for: flesh-and-blood

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Suddenly, Smith said, the figures at the heart of Christianity weren't abstract theological mouthpieces but flesh-and-blood humans who spoke his language.
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.
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.
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.