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
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
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
A darker-hued assessment of the ethics of vivisection, “The White-Coated Man” explores the experience of scientific experimentation from the harrowing perspective of the animal undergoing the procedure.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2019
Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
