Sample sentences for MICROCOSM

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a small environment that demonstrates characteristics of a larger environment

The town is a microcosm of the country.

consciously made our home a microcosm of beauty
My life is like the single dewy star That trembles on the horizon's primrose-bar,— A microcosm where all things living are.
Pater, Walter Horatio -- The Guardian
In a way, he's a functioning microcosm of us all.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
And he knew, too, that his mind dwelt in a world of its own, Shangri-La in microcosm, and that this world also was in peril.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
Here, in a microcosm, we can observe the evil that has crushed our poor planet from the day of its birth in cosmic ooze.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Nobody else I ever knew was so close to the author, to the microcosm of that play as it must have surrounded Wharfinger's living mind.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
On other floors, Travis knew that mothers were giving birth and the elderly were passing away, a microcosm of the world.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
In the beginning he had wanted to use his play as a microcosm to say something about the abuse of power.
Stephen King -- The Shining
He tried to think of other microcosms of the universe that might be battlegrounds: alien invasions, Wild West shootouts, spy missions.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
How they got there was a portrait of American victory in microcosm.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
We regarded the struggle in prison as a microcosm of the struggle as a whole.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Rather, such experiences in the natural world taught me about the diversity of life that could be found in any microcosm.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
I'd like, myself, such a one to see: Sir Microcosm his name should be.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
I STEPPED INTO the lobby, our brave new world in microcosm.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
It was a nice microcosm.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
The town became a microcosm of the world itself, or at least of the parts plagued with society-shattering violence.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
But she didn't think she could maintain another minute wondering what microcosmic parasites were crawling over her skin.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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