anatomization

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The anatomization of beauty — wanting Beyoncé’s eyes or Angelina Jolie’s lips — was well underway.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

Anna Deavere Smith’s 1992 anatomization of the Crown Heights riots ends its run.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

But it’s well worth seeing, both for its merciless anatomization of the country’s post-Ceausescu social order and for Gheorghiu’s stupendous central performance as a mother so monstrous she makes Medea look like a pushover.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2014

There may seem to be something too easy, almost flip, about this kind of social anatomization.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same fact is well borne out by Greek Art, for in its noblest period the artist betrays no evidence of assistance derived from anatomization.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.