Fantasies are dashed by flesh-and-blood reality.

Rob's relationships - with their petty grievances, arguments and small accumulated misunderstandings - have a pulsing flesh-and-blood reality.

Never in my experience has the organ grinder seemed so corporeal: a grisly flesh-and-blood reality.

Even love-No, he was confusing his love for ancient literature with flesh-and-blood reality.

I am flesh-and-blood reality.

But there's a deeper failing, and that's the director Eve Adamson's proclivity for favoring the play's symbols over any flesh-and-blood reality.

However things turn out, flesh-and-blood political realities are likely to overshadow uncertain science and economics in the diplomatic endgame at Kyoto.

Brognola had helped devise the system, nurtured it from drawing board to flesh-and-blood reality.

But the flesh-and-blood reality of war is very different.

Mr. Robards is playing flesh-and-blood reality instead of the manners that are all that's left of that reality in Pinter.