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

Only Charles’s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2022

This is the gift “I Know This Much Is True” offers, a lengthy, lyrical vivisection of intertwined lives made of epic woe.

From Salon • May 10, 2020

Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day!

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker