vivisection

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The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.

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His criticism workshops, a curricula staple for budding critics and dramaturgs, were an experience in literary vivisection, as he homed in on every cliché and woolly idea in that week’s student essay.

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But “Blonde” subjects Monroe to its own grisly vivisection.

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Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture.

From Washington Post

Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse aims for nothing less than a full vivisection of French society in “Bloody Oranges,” a daring social satire that proceeds from the premise that his homeland may be incurably ill.

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