genuine article

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And not a sagacious orchestral adaptation of swing — as in Adams’s “City Noir” — but the genuine article.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Thirty-five years later with “Renfield,” Cage is finally playing the genuine article, complete with bloodthirsty fangs and a dapper velvet smoking jacket.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023

There’s at least one moment in “Blonde,” Andrew Dominik’s dazzling, depressing and fatally incurious movie about Marilyn Monroe, when you might not be sure if you’re watching Ana de Armas or the genuine article.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

The project was the brainchild of David Hanson and was as true to the genuine article as a mid-2000s android could be.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2022

They were the genuine article, mostly the products of lumber towns, dairy farms, mining camps, fishing boats, and shipyards.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown