flesh and blood

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To its credit, “Kissinger” quotes flesh and blood humans recounting some of the horrors Nixon and Kissinger’s policies visited on other nations, such as Cambodia and Bangladesh.

From Salon

To its credit, “Kissinger” quotes flesh and blood humans recounting some of the horrors Nixon and Kissinger’s policies visited on other nations, such as Cambodia and Bangladesh.

From Salon

Dude No. 1 will always be Brady, a sixth-round pick now immortalized outside Gillette Stadium with a behemoth bronze statue that’s probably only a tick slower in the 40 than the flesh and blood original.

From The Wall Street Journal

“They are of us and among us, our own flesh and blood. But they sold their conscience.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He especially reveled in cross-examining Bovino, finding it amusing that while the other Border Patrol agents who testified wore suits and ties, the sector chief sported his uniform, which Ortega joked made him look like “the abstract concept of la migra had personified into flesh and blood.”

From Los Angeles Times