vivisection
Example Sentences
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Dahl’s wit may be mostly used for emotional vivisection, but it still glitters.
This is the gift “I Know This Much Is True” offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe.
From Salon
The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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
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