microcosmic
Example Sentences
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With its portrait of the kind of middle-class, multigenerational abode that’s increasingly rare in growing cities like Mumbai, “About Love” feels like a microcosmic epic, an entire world captured in a grain of sand.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
A land planner on a microcosmic scale, Travis Childers uses everyday stuff, and one specialized material, to construct tiny worlds.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
The 1967 novel is a microcosmic tapestry of tribalism, outsider life and westward expansion packed into a single, slim volume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
That first half-hour of testimony was sort of a microcosmic recapitulation of Palin’s 2008 debut on the national stage.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2022
“Despite my curiosity, I decided that my ignorance was less important than the existence of this microcosmic ecosystem in a veritable desert.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
