Sample Sentences formicrocosm (auto-selected)
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I STEPPED INTO the lobby, our brave new world in microcosm.† (source)
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It was a nice microcosm.† (source)
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In the beginning he had wanted to use his play as a microcosm to say something about the abuse of power.† (source)
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But she didn't think she could maintain another minute wondering what microcosmic parasites were crawling over her skin.† (source)
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We regarded the struggle in prison as a microcosm of the struggle as a whole.† (source)
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In a way, he's a functioning microcosm of us all.† (source)
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I looked upon the Corps as a captive microcosm of the entire human race and thought if I could study them properly and learn all the secret rites and neuroses of the cadets, then in some profoundly inclusive way I could discover the most illuminating sanctities, dilemmas, and mysteries of the human spirit.† (source)
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If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see Himself a whole so frequently, Part of the Part am I, once All, in primal Night,—Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light, The haughty Light, which now disputes the space, And claims of Mother Night her ancient place.† (source)
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He tried to think of other microcosms of the universe that might be battlegrounds: alien invasions, Wild West shootouts, spy missions.† (source)
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This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.† (source)
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Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph.† (source)
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My original strategy was pathetically derivative, lacking logic and design and substituting for both an amorphous hunger to do for a small Southern city what James Joyce had done in his miraculous microcosm.† (source)
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He is a reflection of the World Axis from which the concentric circles spread—the World Mountain, the World Tree—he is the perfect microcosmic mirror of the macrocosm.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The town became a microcosm of the world itself, or at least of the parts plagued with society-shattering violence.† (source)
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Here, in a microcosm, we can observe the evil that has crushed our poor planet from the day of its birth in cosmic ooze.† (source)
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