anatomize

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With the pandemic-set parent-child drama “The Falls,” the prolific director pulls back from the novelistic scope of its predecessor to anatomize the evolution of an estranged bond made whole again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2022

And the production wore its frailties so flamboyantly and desperately, it was a cinch to anatomize them.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

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

I would have one begin with the last point: I understand sufficiently what death and voluptuousnesse are: let not a man busie himselfe to anatomize them.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various