vivisection

Example Sentences

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Dahl’s wit may be mostly used for emotional vivisection, but it still glitters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse aims for nothing less than a full vivisection of French society in “Bloody Oranges,” a daring social satire that proceeds from the premise that his homeland may be incurably ill.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022

Perhaps best known for “Fates and Furies,” her vivisection of a marriage, Groff is a heavily allusive writer whose narratives typically carry a freight of sophisticated references.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

She rejected vaccination and vivisection and moved toward spiritualism.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2021

Usually, his vivisection of Wilsons and Spaldings revealed cores consisting of extremely tightiy bundled rubber bands.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides