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
Bartz takes the idea of a “frenemy” to new heights in her third thriller, yet another expert vivisection of female modes of communication and competition.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2021
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
Usually, his vivisection of Wilsons and Spaldings revealed cores consisting of extremely tightiy bundled rubber bands.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
