flesh and blood

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?

"We want to get her to a safe shore. I want to make sure she is safe and cured. She's my daughter, my own flesh and blood. And I'm so deeply worried about her."

“To have had the opportunity to come back and to really play, discover, and put flesh and blood and sinew and heartbeat into this woman, to really fill her out,” O’Reilly says.