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Mostly, too, Cooke has succeeded, particularly in producing plays that anatomise the state of the nation without standing on a soapbox.

Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 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.

Google Logo Honors Paul Cezanne's Birthday (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2011

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.

Chapter 2 2010

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.

After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone 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.

Archive 2010-01-01 Lou Anders 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.

For Your Viewing Pleasure: Gardens of the Sun Lou Anders 2009

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.

Anatomy of Melancholy 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.

Little Dorrit 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.

The Elegant Variation: 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

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007