anatomize

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.

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.

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

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.

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.