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
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
What “March: Book Three” does even more deftly than its predecessors in the series is to spotlight a range of crucial characters who loom as large as life on the printed page.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2016
You know, dear, he isn't much of a church-goer, and people do say that he's an atheist; yet there he was as large as life this afternoon, and I thought him looking very ill.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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