microcosmic
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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
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
