vivisection
Example Sentences
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This is the gift “I Know This Much Is True” offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe.
From Salon
“Murderland” is a superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges, this summer’s premier nonfiction read.
From Los Angeles Times
Among the horrors he described were vivisections performed without anesthesia on those who had been deliberately administered germs; doctors wanted to see firsthand how the ensuing diseases infected the body.
From New York Times
Unit 731 is also believed to have performed vivisections and frozen prisoners to death in tests of endurance.
From Seattle Times
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
From Los Angeles Times
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