microcosmic
Example Sentences
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The blue-and-white tradition has really spread globally, so this gallery is a nice microcosmic story of the effects of globalism before modern globalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Begun during the isolation of the pandemic shutdown, the pictures are appropriately interior and microcosmic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 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
"Alcarràs" presents a microcosmic look at a family, a farm, and a community by allowing viewers to eavesdrop on their lives.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 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
