anatomize
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With the pandemic-set parent-child drama “The Falls,” the prolific director pulls back from the novelistic scope of its predecessor to anatomize the evolution of an estranged bond made whole again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
Vargas Llosa knows how the levers of power in his country work, and he uses his story to anatomize the degradation of civic life under Fujimori.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018
They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph.
From Nature ● Jul. 18, 2017
Dirda’s style, likewise, is seductively transparent while being devilishly difficult to anatomize or duplicate.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015
He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
The events of the next few minutes will be anatomized and argued over and, maybe, at some point, contested in court.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2017
Mills’s wife, Miranda July, a writer and filmmaker with the steely fragility of a Buster Keaton, once anatomized guys like Mills in a short story.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2017
Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized!
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play reached us with most of the original cast intact, including Reed Birney and Jayne Houdyshell, who reprised their Tony-winning performances in this family drama anatomizing the precarious plight of middle-class Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
Maybe gay shame is itself being appropriated, or merging with the common human shame that writers have been anatomizing since Adam and Eve.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
It’s a great environment for anatomizing an uncommonly thoughtful family, which is held together by Marshall’s softly determined Barbara.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2015
Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
But anatomizing their anguish, these creatures finally decided that it might not be spring fever, but merely hunger.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley
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