microcosmic

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The rooms of the downtown gallery will be darkened, and Hooper Schneider’s “disorienting vistas,” microcosmic scenarios that allude to macrocosmic phenomena of ecological, biological, anthropological and sociological distress, will be illuminated dramatically within.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

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

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