Word: dissects
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Granted, no one has ever mistaken sports programming for 60 Minutes. But sportscasters still owe us an honest minute or two to dissect the golf story of the year, if not the decade. Especially when the story is exploding, and you are stuck with the somewhat sad irony of the Woods saga's unfolding during the same week as his charity tournament. (See the top 10 scandals...
Some accounts delve deeply into the effects on education and university life as a whole, while others simply dissect the notion of privilege...
...from listening to digitally recorded music, or really from any human interaction mediated by the Internet. In the case of Juliet, Naked, the music is by Tucker Crowe, a legendary (fictional) singer-songwriter who was last heard from in 1986 but who still has rabid online followers who endlessly dissect his recordings on message boards. Sort of like Elliott Smith, if he'd disappeared instead of died...
...heavy-handed, utterly sterile critique of greed and the postmodern loss of individual identity. Even if Volpi intended for the storyline to play second fiddle to his socio-political commentary, poor character development renders these auxiliaries distracting and unnecessary at best.The decidedly scientific lens that Volpi employs to dissect human nature, however, partly compensates for the novel’s lack of unique, believable characters; in “Season of Ash,” the unbendable laws of biology and genetics govern emotional decision-making. Volpi’s three women each dismiss emotion as an impractical figment...
...yard,” where any passerby could stop and listen. Then, it took place among art of a different kind—the modern visual pieces in the Sculpture Garden. As my ears learned new ways of making a piano and a trombone combine, my eyes tried to dissect what looked like a giant pulley—Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, I later learned...