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
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
“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
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