blue-blooded

The remaining ones then hold a by-election to bring another blue-blooded peer back.

Critics and journalists weighed in, too, including the Times of London’s chief art critic Laura Freeman, who asked, “Has a portrait of a blue-blooded British monarch ever been so very pink?”

Just as the Martin character — a blue-blooded, retired police officer — was different than his sons, this set captures that juxtaposition.

The book’s heroine, Irene Woodward, a blue-blooded New Yorker fleeing a soured engagement, stands in for Urrea’s mom, who came from a similar background.

Yet the Bushes were a blue-blooded political family already anchored in the national establishment.