microcosmic

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Unlike most of Guest’s fake documentaries, which sink deep into the microcosmic worlds they parody, the film is far more character-focused.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

Millet’s definition of the end of the world is expansive: Sometimes, the world is microcosmic and social.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

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

And, contrasting with this macrocosmic scale, there is the microcosmic: the stripped-down vulnerability of individual drawings, which are often not much larger than the faces that lean in to absorb them.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

It is an old rural town that has even a few bams, an alienated and microcosmic village within a large city.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole