blue blood

The battle of blue bloods capped off Thursday night’s four play-in games to the main bracket.

The blue bloods you would expect to see at the top of the men’s bracket — Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas — have faltered this year in ways that can only partly be blamed on the pandemic.

Each is a blue blood in both the figurative and the chromatic.

Michigan State is another college basketball blue blood in disarray this seasonBest of all, there isn’t an obvious hole in the Scarlet Knights’ postseason profile.

Both Gonzaga and Baylor are interesting cases this year, edging out the traditional blue bloods like Kentucky and Duke as well as the champions of the last couple of years, Villanova and Virginia.

From the start, we see him as he is: a despot and a swindler, a Dallas blue-blood with FBI ties, fleeing a violent past.

In Cold Mountain I did the blue-blood accent, and this one is totally different.

He may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

No other women with less blue blood could even attempt to get away with what she seems to in fact be getting away with.

Blood will run in the streets of the city when I get up, the brown blood, the black blood, the blue blood.

In every drop of the blue blood of St. Louis there is a bubble of sporting blood.

With Mrs. Garnett, one must have either plenty of very blue blood or more than plenty of very yellow gold.

Oh what a pity one cannot sell one's quality for daily bread, or trade off one's blue blood for black coffee.

His blue blood carries him through life with glory and straight to heaven when he dies.