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
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 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
