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dissection

noun as in cutting up, particularly of a dead body

noun as in thorough analysis

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I watched Hilty for research but I quickly found myself caught up in her minute dissection and seemingly wild projection.

But, in borrowing the familiar format of making-of documentaries, DVD bonus featurettes, even episodic reviews or recaps, they insist on a vision of television as an art worthy of discussion and dissection.

It remains unclear whether the 27-year-old actually suffered from CTE, because the disease can only be diagnosed definitively through brain dissection.

Patchy approaches — “Rachel Getting Married” gets some dissection with minimal production detail, while “The Silence of the Lambs” gets extensive production detail with no film analysis — doesn’t help extract Demme’s thematic throughlines as a filmmaker.

Some find the film’s dissection of the economics of dating to be incisive, while others think it’s outdated and cold.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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