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Instead, this year it will probably be $20 million, she said, calling it “a microcosm of our challenge.”
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I begin to observe that it sounds as if Sully is in microcosm what Newman himself…but that is as far as I get.
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Kareem and Samir’s experience is a microcosm of the brutality of theEgyptian regime.
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But those shining moments have been anomalies, and this week’sepisodes served as a microcosm of this season’s problems.
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Altogether, the monks, the Dukes, and the winemakers created a microcosm the influence of which can still be
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If we look at the microcosm of our own person we find this principle exactly reproduced.
The Hidden Power Thomas Troward -
But I perceive now that my thought was a seed containing my omnisciencein microcosm.
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Sutter walked forward slowly, aware in a vague way that he had enteredanother plane that was at once a microcosm and a macrocosm.
Made in Tanganyika Carl Richard Jacobi -
Here they established a boy periodical, called the ” microcosm.”
The Printer Boy. William M. Thayer -
Maimonides knew Joseph ibn Zaddik favorably, but he was not familiar with the ” microcosm.”
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik
microcosm
c.1200, mycrocossmos (modern form from early 15c.), “human nature,man viewed as the epitome of creation,” literally “miniature world,” fromMiddle French microcosme and in earliest use directly from Medieval Latinmicrocosmus, from Greek mikros “small” (see mica ) + kosmos “world”(see cosmos ). General sense of “a community constituting a world untoitself” is attested from 1560s. Related: Microcosmic. A native expression inthe same sense was petty world (c.1600).
microcosm definition
A representation of something on a much smaller scale. Microcosm means“small world,” and in the thought of the Renaissance, it was appliedspecifically to human beings, who were considered to be small-scalemodels of the universe, with all its variety and contradiction. ( Comparemacrocosm.)
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