anatomize
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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 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
He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
When the cameras closed in on her as she claimed her Globe, writers breathlessly anatomized every facet of her look.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017
The conclusion to “American Notes,” of 1842, a book that won him few friends in the land that he had toured, anatomized what he had found there:
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2016
Her guitar tone is produced warmly, which makes one feel comforted even if they’re being emotionally anatomized.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015
Rev. John Pierpont recited a poem in which the Yankee Character was keenly anatomized.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
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 ● Jun. 2, 2021
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
Each incident of Internet straying brings its own gleeful anatomizing.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
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
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