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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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