vivisection
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More broadly the play is a tart vivisection of human pettiness and venality, as one by one the characters’ prejudices, peccadilloes and blinkered views are exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
His criticism workshops, a curricula staple for budding critics and dramaturgs, were an experience in literary vivisection, as he homed in on every cliché and woolly idea in that week’s student essay.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023
Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
This is the gift "I Know This Much Is True" offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe.
From Salon • May 10, 2020
Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing vivisection
Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 27–30
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Challenge, List 5
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