warts and all

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"If you know them as well, I think that just makes it harder because warts and all, you have to try and find a fully-rounded character."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Mr Pettigrew said he welcomed the NC500 Ltd impact study "so long as it is warts and all" but said it was 10 years too late.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

And though the book has its shortcomings, he rightly sees the movie as a kind of passkey into the history of the first half-century of Hollywood itself, warts and all.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

Having spent nearly 50 years telling America’s stories, warts and all, Ken Burns knows better than to traffic in the reassurance business.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

Here, finally, is Louis XV., with chiccory leaves and vermicelli, and all the warts, and all the fungi, which disfigure that decrepit, toothless, and coquettish old architecture.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence