microcosmic

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Also stuffed not inelegantly between the microcosmic doings are several larger incidents that limn the bloody and brutal history of the two centuries, including South American totalitarianism, European pogroms and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2020

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