Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life is a gentle yet stinging rebuke to our little minds that constantly make God "in our own image," unaware that He "hath made of one flesh all the peoples of the earth" to live together in charity and fraternity...
...early on the morning of the funeral by the time Roger and a few friends had persuaded the police and other authorities that he was still alive. "It is Roger Lamy, in the flesh and standing before me," Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes. "He can no longer be considered to be in that coffin of yours." The captain agreed, but it was much too late to call off the funeral. In honor of the great day, one of the cafés gave Roger a free breakfast. Roger...
Discolored pieces of flesh and bruised organs were cut from the dead body of Mrs. Mary C. Bridges and sent to the Department of Legal Medicine yesterday as police attempted to clear up the mystery surrounding the Boston socialite's recent drowning...
Slices of Flesh. Although ill health has forced him to give up his regular magazine work, Matania is convinced that there is still a demand for his nudes, intends "to live as long as I can" and paint them. Leggy modern pinups he considers poor stuff. "Vulgar and artificial," he says. "Copies of photographs with slices of lovely flesh cut off the thighs...
...Pleasure of Disgust. The Desert of Love was one of the last of François Mauriac's "unregenerate" novels. A year after his cry that "Christianity makes no allowance for the flesh," he underwent deep conversion. He approvingly quoted Pascal: "What pleasure is greater than being disgusted with pleasure...