vivisection
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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
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
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
Usually, his vivisection of Wilsons and Spaldings revealed cores consisting of extremely tightiy bundled rubber bands.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 27–30
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