anatomize

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 ● Jan. 6, 2021

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

This is big-picture theater, which takes a long view down the corridors of power to anatomize the psyches of the men and women who determine the fate of nations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016

Leigh’s work has largely been focused on contemporary ensemble pieces that anatomize British society, made in collaboration with a dedicated repertory of actors who fashion each film from an intensive process of improvised rehearsals.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2014

I would, if possible, anatomize the natural heart.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

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 show proceeds as a sustained, cryptic, circular apologia pro vita sua, in which childhood tragedies and grown-up losses in love are anatomized like corpses in a forensic lab.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2018

The conclusion to “American Notes,” of 1842, a book that won him few friends in the land that he had toured, anatomized what he had found there:

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2016

Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015

That approaches apace: I would gladly have him see his company anatomized, that he might take a measure of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had set this counterfeit.

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

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 ● Jun. 2, 2021

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

Since his debut at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, critics have enjoyed anatomizing Xavier Dolan’s manic yet sublime style.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2015

Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013

Yet, in truth, she had no notion of anatomizing her thoughts or feelings.

From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel by Mrs. Harry Coghill