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He was speaking about digital software, but he could have been referring to the flesh-and-blood software of the event.
Alex Pasternack: SXSW Interactive: The Tech Conference as Bloatware Alex Pasternack 2011
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He was speaking about digital software, but he could have been referring to the flesh-and-blood software of the event.
Alex Pasternack: SXSW Interactive: The Tech Conference as Bloatware Alex Pasternack 2011
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He was speaking about digital software, but he could have been referring to the flesh-and-blood software of the event.
Alex Pasternack: SXSW Interactive: The Tech Conference as Bloatware Alex Pasternack 2011
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The recent suicide of a 42-year-old woman from England who was largely ignored after she posted a Christmas Day good-bye message to more than 1,000 friends drives home the skin-deepness of Facebook relationships and the importance of making sure they do not crowd out flesh-and-blood interactions.
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Mr. Curtis turns Mrs. Tracy into a flesh-and-blood human being with her own story, her own strong personality.
Hollywood's Favorite Actor Jeanine Basinger 2011
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It is always important to realize that abstract "issues" have flesh-and-blood consequences, and sometimes that point must be driven home.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Never mind the informal, flesh-and-blood conversations among irritated scientists that shouldn't really have surprised anyone.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Clint Eastwood's investigation of Hoover's life and tumultuous times seeks the cold facts behind the crime-fighter myths, the flesh-and-blood man behind the dour demeanor and the rumors of homosexuality.
'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011
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But these resemblances are only superficial: The Effie abandoned on her wedding night by a fastidious aesthetician, for whom art would always have the edge over flesh-and-blood reality, can seem like a creature from another planet.
A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011
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The concept of pandrogyny was, Ms. Breyer P-Orridge said, like a flesh-and-blood version of Beat-era artist Brion Gysin's surrealist creative strategy called the "cut-up."
The Ballad of a Rebel and Her Lost Love Steve Dollar 2011
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