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Examples of microcosm
microcosm
He behaves like a funny, fallible human, and also a poetic microcosm of mankind.
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The final play in that run was a microcosm of the energy the Panthers displayed.
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This is however more often used in the sense of the microcosm and the macrocosm.
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The rookie wage scale is indeed a microcosm of what these negotiations are about.
From the bostonherald.com
The still-amazing arena, repurposed, could be a microcosm of our civic evolution.
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The Big Easy is in trouble from every angle, a microcosm of the macro of America.
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In many ways, Brighton Township offered a microcosm of Sacramento County history.
From the sacbee.com
Last year's outing in the Meijer 300 was a microcosm of Steve Wallace's season.
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People also see this issue as a microcosm of the nation's ambivalence about coal.
From the washingtonpost.com
- A miniature model of something
- (microcosmic) relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the microcosmic world of business"
- Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, near the town of Meyrin. It covers a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN. ...
- Microcosm was a unique clock made by Henry Bridges of Waltham Abbey, England. It stood 10-12 feet high, and six across the base, it toured Great Britain, North America and the West Indies as a visual and musical entertainment as well as demonstrating astronomical movements.
- Microcosms are artificial, simplified ecosystems that are used to simulate and predict the behaviour of natural ecosystems under controlled conditions. Open or closed microcosms provide an experimental area for ecologists to study natural ecological processes. ...
- Microcosm is a shoot 'em up computer game developed and published by Psygnosis in . It was released for the Sega Mega-CD and Amiga CD32 game consoles, as well as MS-DOS. Microcosm featured realistic FMV animation, with the graphics being rendered on Silicon Graphics workstations. ...
- A smaller system which is representative of or analogous to a larger one; a small, complete world
- The little universe, or man manifesting through his body, the physical body.
- The "little" Universe meaning man, made in the image of his creator, the Macrocosm, or "great" Universe, and containing all that the latter contains. These terms are used in Occultism and Theosophy.
