flesh and blood

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.”

"As I was approaching the exit, I felt myself being struck by the bullet…I could see the flesh and blood breaking away from my face."

Often, it's the first time a medical student works with real flesh and blood - an experience that can't be replicated from a textbook.

Behind the headlines and beyond the numbers, flesh and blood people are cut off from basic necessities, including food, clean water, and medical care.

But would an American art museum ever do a show on the theme of, say, “Transubstantiation: Catholic Art Across Europe and the United States,” in order to teach the diverse subtleties and dynastic refinements of a belief in the conversion of bread and wine into flesh and blood?