Sentences with phrase «as microcosms»

On their own, they exist as microcosms of performance, incorporating both images of the body and are overpainted with pigment camouflage.

Radioactive nuclei act as microcosms for learning about neutron stars, objects that squash more mass than is contained in the Sun into the size of a city, and which are key to understanding how the Universe's heavy elements form.

The whole ordeal serves as a microcosm of the Colts» season.

but when it comes to building the same culture within their own community & extending those same rights & privileges (i.e., encouraging free thought) as a microcosm of the same culture...

This is especially true of a vow — in particular the marriage vow, which gives rise to the physical establishment of the home as the microcosm of society, shaping a universal commonwealth.

He viewed the civil rights movement as a microcosm of the beloved community.

The idea of man as the microcosm imaging the macrocosm is significant.

More than other types of association, a religious group presents itself as a microcosm with its own law, outlook on life, attitude and atmosphere.

In Buber's essay on Jacob Boehme (1900) this feeling of unity is used to illustrate the idea of man as the microcosm, or little world which contains the whole.

Judging by the #Justice4Janet hashtag from October, people are looking for true fairness and reconciliation between the two, in addition to bucking against what appears to be an example of racial and gender inequalities on display as a microcosm.

Such a representation of God corresponds to the conception which the Greek man had of himself as a microcosm, receiving form from a law identical with the great cosmic law, a form which is present as an ideal norm in human will and knowledge.

The mall can be seen as a microcosm of the things we do.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

If Egypt continues to be used as a microcosm of the larger situation, the recent religious tension there needs to be addressed.

Therapy is seen as a microcosm of life.

Though Crossan says that «Jesus» Jewishness is particularly important in terms of the body / society interaction» (body as microcosm), there is virtually nothing particularly Jewish left in Crossan's portrait of this Mediterranean peasant.

This institution could be seen as a microcosm for Downtown Raleigh; though it's been around for ages, the talents of chef Josh Young have brought the place into its very own...

This guide will help bird enthusiasts identify birds — both common and rare — found frequenting rice fields in the Philippines, spotlighting particularly the rice fields on the research farm of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a microcosm for the country as a whole.

Sport as a microcosm of or a metaphor for life is most complicated during an Olympics, especially when the competition gets swallowed by nationalism.

Harrison's efforts against Northgate and in the playoff opener against San Lorenzo serve as a microcosm of the team's re-vamped hunger and focus which manifested from the near - loss to Concord.

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

This weekend's Capital One Cup final win over Liverpool served as a microcosm for their campaign, a penalty shootout victory that underlined their ability to complete a job without especial panache.

Based on interviews with 100 women, this book identifies obstetrical procedures as rituals, and analyzes the American medical system as a microcosm of our society which seeks through these rituals to socialize birthing women into the collective core value system of the technocracy.

In the next 10 minutes or so, I hope to engage your interest by focusing on Gomoa West district as a microcosm of a national problem on education.

He pointed to the Westchester County Airport privatization deal as a microcosm of what he said were short - sighted budgetary practices.

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.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

The trial, taken as a microcosm, confirms AIM's director Surh's assertions, «our data could explain why children suffer from a higher incidence of food allergy than adults and why childhood allergy spontaneously dissipates with time.»

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

The Chinese Taoist philosophy sees the entire universe as a living organism and our body's organism as a microcosm of the universe.

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Basically Altman uses the country music scene as a microcosm of American shallowness, its obsession with celebrity and their symbiotic manipulation by politicians (impressively prophetic now, in retrospect).

As a microcosm of cinema in 2012, my list of the finest celluloid achievements can be reduced to a core concern of creation and destruction.

Turmoil on a high - school football team (the Ampipe Bulldogs) functions as the microcosm for factory layoffs, teen pregnancy, and the existential angst embedded in the image of a horrible Lea Thompson playing a mournful saxophone on a street corner.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

Bobby is more about capturing a state of mind about the mood and pulse of the United States on the day of Robert Kennedy's death, using the multi-character ensemble cast as a microcosm of the more important issues of the day.

That sequence, then, serves as a microcosm for the whole production.

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.

And Elia Suleiman has received a grant for his fourth feature, It Must be Heaven, which reportedly shows «the world as a microcosm of Palestine.»

Its wry sense of humor and surrealism reminded me of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, who used a checkpoint as a microcosm in his 2002 film, Divine Intervention.

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.

Bard is one of the ambitious new schools opened last year under Newark School Superintendent Cami Anderson and Dashawn's experience could be seen as a microcosm of the school system she has started to remake her first year.

Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.

The verdict: Using the hotel as a microcosm for modern Europe, Ali skillfully examines such timely topics as gender, immigration and class.

This errand, seemingly simple, could stand as a microcosm for a plot that is all about transitions — epic, life - altering journeys from Nigeria to America and London, the transition from high school to college, the evolution of teenage crushes to true love, right down to the minute, but no less significant, detail of where a black girl can get her hair done.

Using the hotel as a microcosm for modern Europe, Ali skillfully examines such timely topics as gender, immigration and class.

In her acutely observant and compassionate fourth novel, Straight casts Southern California as a microcosm of injustice in an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legacies.