He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mostly, too, Cooke has succeeded, particularly in producing plays that anatomise the state of the nation without standing on a soapbox. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Cézanne stared so intensely at nature he began to take it apart in his mind, to anatomise it, theorise it, on long hot afternoons in his studio in Aix-en-Provence and then reassemble the elements of reality in paintings that are pixellated constellations of insights, recognitions, memories and flashes of desire or rage. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)
McElhone might not be as self-consciously erudite as Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking, nor does she seek to anatomise the process of grieving, as CS Lewis did in A Grief Observed, but her greatest strength is her lack of style: she gets straight to the point; she tells us how it is. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by Avernus, the Outers' greatest genius, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)
The three precedent species are the subject of my present discourse, which I will anatomise and treat of through all their causes, symptoms, cures, together and apart; that every man that is in any measure affected with this malady, may know how to examine it in himself, and apply remedies unto it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He was tame in comparison with Mr Gowan, who knew how to address me on equal terms, and how to anatomise the wretched people around us. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And, of course, The Gathering isn't a simple thing at all - it's a genuine attempt to stare down both love and death, to anatomise their pains and fears and peculiar pleasures. ❋ TEV (2007)
And I doubt not but that in the end you will say with me, that to anatomise this humour aright, through all the members of this our ❋ Unknown (2007)
She would pounce on his most intimate thoughts and feelings, drag them out into daylight and anatomise them; would put into words those phantom fears, and insidious evasions, which he had so far managed to keep in the twilight where they belonged. ❋ Unknown (2003)
How great would have been his astonishment had he been told that light does not reflect directly by impinging against the solid parts of bodies, that bodies are not transparent when they have large pores, and that a man should arise who would demonstrate all these paradoxes, and anatomise a single ray of light with more dexterity than the ablest artist dissects a human body. ❋ Voltaire (1909)
I am content to lay in a stock of ideas then, and to examine and anatomise them afterwards. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
When regular artists and professors conduct us into their dissecting room, the skill with which they anatomise may reconcile us to the offensiveness of the operation; but if butchers and resurrection-men are to drag us into their shambles, while they mangle human carcases with their clumsy and unhallowed hands, the stoutest spectators must turn from the exhibition with sickness and disgust. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
Houghton has treated the difficult theme of a mother's and daughter's love for the same man with tenderness and grace; a foreign writer would lay bare and anatomise with more of scalpel and less of sentiment. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Over the DE BENEFICIIS and the DE IRA one is sometimes moved to say, as the essayist does [130] over Cicero, "I understand sufficiently what death and voluptuousness are; let not a man busy himself to anatomise them." ❋ Unknown (1894)
'Then let them anatomise Regan, see what breeds about her heart. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Should I anatomise him to you as he is, I must blush and weep, and you must look pale and wonder. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)
His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition. ❋ Unknown (1859)
