anatomize

Example Sentences

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Over the last quarter-century, the book as physical organism has been increasingly anatomized, and there has been no better medium for displaying anatomists’ findings than the book itself.

From New York Times

Though sartorial elegance is an instinct, as Mr. Cerruti suggested, it can be anatomized.

From New York Times

The ambivalence of marriage is preserved in all its volatile disorder, but the social conditions, which Bergman patiently anatomizes in his version, are left vague.

From Los Angeles Times

She has always had plenty to say about that, but now she is more interested in anatomizing all the forces that carved her into the woman she is today.

From Los Angeles Times

They make their lives from the bits of gender and love and culture they’ve been given, and there’s no place to stand outside that messy process and anatomize, dissect or categorize them.

From Los Angeles Times