He wasn't sure, not entirely, if he spoke to the flesh-and-blood woman or to the ghost.

She looked more like a nude painted by an Impressionist than a flesh-and-blood woman.

And how much from the real, flesh-and-blood woman sitting before him?

It felt like he was hugging ice rather than a flesh-and-blood woman.

Even from two feet away you couldn't tell that she wasn't a real flesh-and-blood woman.

He'd also just realized this was the real Impervia, a flesh-and-blood woman who bled when she cut her arm.

For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms.

Don't treat me as if I am less than a flesh-and-blood woman.

What she was was a flesh-and-blood woman who found the man beside her outrageously attractive.

Indeed, what's so amazing about it is precisely the fact that a flesh-and-blood woman could claim it as her own.