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
Begun during the isolation of the pandemic shutdown, the pictures are appropriately interior and microcosmic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 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
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
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
