microcosmic

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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

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

Bridget Sue Lambert and Jessica van Brakle offer microcosmic vignettes in “Personal Odyssey,” the D.C. artists’ Civilian Art Projects show.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

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