anatomize
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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022
It is the lack of proximity to those stories, the immediacy of hearing loved ones talk about their own experience of this “dark winter,” that makes this darkness so difficult to comprehend and anatomize.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2020
And the production wore its frailties so flamboyantly and desperately, it was a cinch to anatomize them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
To probe the stars was to him a simpler process than to anatomize the globe upon which he stood.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
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
Over the years, his writing has anatomized commitment and relationships with a sharp eye for foibles — especially male ones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
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
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