Sentence examples for act of surgery from inspiring English sources

An act of surgery was required.

The dismantling of a minivan early in the film resembles the ritual slaughter of a sacrificial animal, much as the removal of a steering column later looks like a grisly act of surgery.

A better explanation is that, for some mysterious and wonderful reason, Wilson finds the act of surgery irresistible, in the way that musicians find pleasure in the sounds they produce on their instruments, or in the way Tony Gwynn gets a thrill every time he strokes a ball cleanly through the infield.

Baum suggested that the act of surgery can provoke the outgrowth of dormant micrometatstasis [ 12, 13].

It is therefore an "all or nothing" event where the act of surgery itself, no matter how extensive, is the contributing factor.

The latter remain dormant until some signal; perhaps the act of surgery or other adverse life events stimulates them into fast growth.

Subtle acts of surgery have now stitched the pieces together, forming a layered sequence that echoes the classical form of the existing Serpentine Gallery across the lake.

No simple diagnosis exists to determine whether someone is eligible for a sex-change operation or "gender reassignment", which can of course mean everything else that leads up to the drastic act of genital surgery, such as psychological counselling and hormone treatment.

Hence, as far as possible, our anti-intellectualism must be excised from the benevolent impulses upon which it lives by constant and delicate acts of intellectual surgery which spare these impulses themselves.

Unlike the British Museum's Great Court or Tate Modern's Switch House, the illustrious Piccadilly pile in central London celebrates its 250th birthday with less of a flashy architectural statement than a series of discrete acts of corrective surgery – which, together, promise to transform the entire institution.

In practice, the implementation of PCUs depends on the proximity of the structure, the conformity of time slots between EDs and PCUs, and the realization of acts of minor surgery.