Sentences with phrase «microcosms at»

Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Ruth Abrams: Microcosms at Yeshiva University Museum, on view through January 6, 2012.

I don't think it is a microcosm at all.

Such is the microcosm at the center of Jean Renoir's Night at the Crossroads, a stunning mystery thriller based on the novel by Georges Simenon, one of the greatest of all detective writers.

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With only 8 million people and a GDP one - tenth the size of Germany's, Austria couldn't bring the EU down directly, but its disenchantment with established parties and popular anger at the management of the migrant crisis make it a microcosm of the angst that could spell the union's downfall.

It's a mark of Harper's governing style that even at this level of functional microcosm, he maintains a certain balance among the Conservative movement's constituent factions.

So taking ZClassic and bitcoin and looking at these two in a microcosm, the question is which is a better investment from here?

For man here is both a microcosm of the universe and at the same time and in certain significant respects an anticipation of what Teilhard called the Omega - point or God.

The church at Corinth was a microcosm of the tensions in the larger church.

This neighborhood microcosm reveals the forces of religion, secularism and pluralism pulling at Europe's growing Muslim population (estimated at least 15 million), whose heaviest concentrations are in France, Britain and Germany.

The city at its best was nothing other than a microcosm of the world, a model of the human mind, and an image of heaven.

Hartshorne's assumption that the microcosm of any particular human experience, at the utmost level of metaphysical generality, resembles the macrocosmic universe even though the latter is an almost infinitely vast conglomeration of other experiences.

Our issue can be looked at in microcosm with the current center back situation.

He didn't play very well, and this attempt at a tackle was pretty much a microcosm of the game for the New York Jets.

If there was a microcosm of Martin Truex Jr.'s season, Sunday's playoff opener victory at Chicagoland Speedway encapsulated it.

«When you look at the NFL and its policy, it's an interesting microcosm of larger policy,» says DFCR's executive director Brian Muraresku.

This result was a microcosm of the last few years where we sneak into the CL places and paper over the serious cracks we have at the club.

However, it was a game that was also a microcosm summary of why Van Gaal may repeat history at United by leaving behind some solid foundations for future success, as he did at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, without enjoying much in the way of the present - day glory he enjoyed in Spain and Germany himself.

Those two results can be viewed as a microcosm of an erratic campaign at Goodison.

The majority of the people are brash troglodytes, the Yankees are a microcosm of what is wrong with our economic operations, the people suck at driving, and the city is dirtier than German shepherds b - hole on a hot July day.

One would assume that as a microcosm of America, something that large should at least be competitive - but I can't remember it every being so.

«We are a microcosm of middle America if you look at the landscape of the district and the reality of our district is that we don't have living wage jobs,» DeVito said.

So what we have got in microcosm is something we have had at every general election in my lifetime, which is that an essentially Eurosceptic electorate keeps returning essentially Europhile majorities to parliament.

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

DiChristina: I was just going to say, that's one thing also what occurred to me is that to me is a lesson in microcosm — because it's just a paragraph what Steve just read to everybody — that shows why it's so important in science to remove all your confounds, you know, remove all the variables so that you can find really what is at the heart of thing, and to me that that's the lesson that science has much more thoroughly adopted probably at this point and can speak with, you know, much greater authority; when something actually is a finding you need to be able to remove all the potential things that could be interfering with the conclusion that you're trying to make.

A large German consortium has been studying how land - use intensification affects functional diversity, and more work needs to be done on the role of spatial data and interactions at the landscape level, rather than in microcosms or individual study sites.

It is useful to look at a the Tokelau Island Migrant Study as a microcosm of what is happening now in China.

So those same men are probably at a greater risk of heart disease as well, because what's happening in the penile region is simply a microcosm of what is happening throughout the entire cardiovascular system.

An enraging film, as it is meant to be, and not just because it is a military microcosm of rape culture at large.

«Empire Records» is a microcosm movie, one of those films where in a single day, in a single music store, every conceivable thing happens to every conceivable character, and at the end of the day, they are all a lot wiser, as the endless list of music credits scrolls up the screen.

More recently, a smaller documentary that premiered at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival in June, «Stella Polaris Ulloriarsuaq,» looked at the microcosm of Greenland and how global warming was affecting culture.

Claire is, in other words and in any way that matters, the microcosm of everything that's wrong with Elizabethtown: she's an android programmed to bestow idiosyncrasy like a Pez dispenser geeked at regular intervals — an artificial simulacrum of charm made more disturbing in that this Hall of Presidents ride is calibrated to spew platitudes on grief and new relationships instead of The Gettysburg Address.

Describing her entirely would reveal too much about this flick, even though spoilers SHOULD N'T be something one should be concerned about with a movie like this — all the same, I won't ruin it — but I'll say this: Miss San Antonio, for all intents and purposes, is a microcosm of Rodriguez» brand of filming (at least, as of late).

On one hand, it does show how far we've come (at least in the University microcosm) that the stakes here are decidedly lower in stakes than say, Mel Brooks» Blazing Saddles, but it does not make any of the films verbal salvos any less stinging or funny.

Far too liberal for some (dicks), Sorkin is at his best when his work is politically infused, but never losing sight of the characters and their own social microcosms.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

Murray and McDormand excel at showing a faltering marriage in microcosm.

Relying on his own ingenuity, Viktor manages to survive, and even thrive at times, in the tiny, confined American microcosm while he waits for his freedom.

Nantz is quickly paired with a freshly minted lieutenant who panics at the first sign of combat, leading a multi-ethnic squad meant as a microcosm of America.

We identified schools as essential environments for tackling these wider societal challenges; they act as a microcosm of broader society and represent a key stage in life for shaping and developing how one looks at the world.

Through a more harmonious and healthy interaction to various cultures and socio - economic backgrounds, to developing a deeper understanding of community that comes from hands - on interaction with corporations, non-profits, cultural and academic institutions, students are exposed to a microcosm of the world at large, learning skills of interaction, team building and cooperation.

By focusing on the microcosm of her own family and their neighbors, Irmgard's memoir shows how it was possible for a nation to fall willingly under Hitler's power - one family at a time.

He suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a heightened awareness of the tangled stems and roots, a forest in microcosm, a transfigured world of ants and beetles and even — though he wouldn't have known the details at the time — of soil bacteria by the billions, silently and invisibly shoring up the economy of the micro-world.

Marketing and product development is done at a level well beyond the microcosm that is a handful of geeks such as those in this forum (myself included).

But the more I dug, the more I realized that golf, and the complex world that surrounds it, is really a microcosm of China at the moment.

«This exciting opportunity to develop the «Map My Future» concept with the support of the UKCES has enabled us to look at our own Rocco Forte Hotels talent as a microcosm of the industry at large, and to strive to inspire ambition in young people.»

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It also discusses the microcosm of the «factory», which was open for artist residencies at a time when Warhol discovered, with ever renewed curiosity, the underground music scene and tried to produce» Superstars».

Currently working on a series of landscapes made with smoke bombs, Kantanen is a repeated feature at Purdy Hicks in London, while her books provide a microcosm worth stepping into.

The exhibition «Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells» presents 28 emotionally charged architectural spaces, each an individual microcosm separating the internal from the external world, the exhibition also reunites Cells I to VI for the first time since 1991, when they were first shown at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.

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