blood-warm
Example Sentences
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For Homer, that person is Daniel Mendelsohn, and this blood-warm book.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2017
The blood-warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico teem with life.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 11, 2016
Around this book’s margins a scruffy and blood-warm autobiography emerges.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2012
I was reminded of my own reaction to “On Native Grounds,” his profound and blood-warm study of American writers from 1890 to 1940.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2011
I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man’s float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality—talk, footsteps, slamming doors—which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
