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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 ● Jan. 6, 2021

Vargas Llosa knows how the levers of power in his country work, and he uses his story to anatomize the degradation of civic life under Fujimori.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

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

Dirda’s style, likewise, is seductively transparent while being devilishly difficult to anatomize or duplicate.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015

It would be too curious to anatomize the writhings of his proud little spirit.

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

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

At such moments, you may even feel that it’s your own cluttered, consumerist mind that’s being anatomized up there.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

Mills’s wife, Miranda July, a writer and filmmaker with the steely fragility of a Buster Keaton, once anatomized guys like Mills in a short story.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2017

Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015

The highest mind is an anatomized or dismembered mesmerism, each member whereof has been constituted independent in itself.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Mr. Harbach has likely exposed himself to criticism by anatomizing feminist politics and assuming the perspectives of 20-something coeds, though I think his characterizations are generous and insightful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

Since his debut at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, critics have enjoyed anatomizing Xavier Dolan’s manic yet sublime style.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2015

But anatomizing their anguish, these creatures finally decided that it might not be spring fever, but merely hunger.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley