large as life
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Stefan and Ping Yi were here, as large as life.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2024
“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain,” novelist Paul Auster once wrote.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
There is as much spiritual intensity as academic rigor in his books, along with a sense that he was trying to capture something as large as life with his words.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024
When you’ve seen an image in reproduction so many times, it’s almost hallucinatory to encounter the real painting, large as life.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2018
So I walked in as large as life.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
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