anatomize

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

Wu looked instead to the example of documentary legend Frederick Wiseman, whose immersive films anatomize institutions through keen observation and canny editing.

From Los Angeles Times

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