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
Only Charles’s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 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
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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