microcosmic

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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

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