Word: dissecting
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...last the Senate can settle down to some interesting business. There is a new treaty to dissect, a new opportunity to bandy words the like of which has not been seen since 1918. "Does the Senator from Idaho?"--will be heard at frequent intervals if we are to judge from the opening debate. The Senate and the newspapers are apparently equally thrilled over the prospect of action once more, if what goes on in the Upper House at Washington can pass under that name; and the country would be thrilled too were it not for several facts...
...useless to analyze fashions in literature as it is to dissect a man's personality. Personality defles analysis, and books follow the personalities of their authors. To understand the characteristics of a piece of writing, one must be acquainted with the prevalent styles of the time and with the politics and current history of the period under discussion...
...think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
...Time will show whether or not they erred in drawing the line at Gen. Butler. It must be confessed that they have increased the honor attaching to a LL. D., when coming from Harvard. The rule they have now tacitly laid down will impel the board hereafter to critically dissect the claims of future governors to the degree Gen. Butler has been refused. - [Transcript...
Miss H. (who has chosen medicine as a profession, to Professor, who has given the class an ox's heart to dissect). - "Oh! Professor, can't we have forks to handle it with?" - Vassar Miscellany...