Sentences with phrase «become microcosms»

But in the meantime, church pews have become microcosms of an America that is increasingly self - sorting in socioeconomic and cultural terms.

Sadly, it's basically become a microcosm for social media interactions in general, and has already backfired.

A woman's body becomes a microcosm of the universe, rather than an object of exploitation and contempt.

Not since James Cameron's underrated 1989 gem The Abyss has a failed marriage become a microcosm of psychological terror in which each character's capacity for good and evil is tested.

Even if only temporarily, the exhibition becomes a microcosm of the greater work the artist is doing, while also alluding and drawing attention to the work still to be done.

Merging the biographical and the political, each panel becomes a microcosm of the artist's career.

WIND: • Tension in northwest Ohio between bird conservation groups and wind energy supporters «has become a microcosm of the larger, political tug - of - war over valuable land and airspace.»

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Only in this way does man's soul become more honorable and perfect, an intelligible microcosm comparable to the existing Macrocosm, and become ready to enjoy the greatest happiness in the world to come.

It was in the smallness, in the microcosm of my own creation, that the big world shrunk down and the chaos receded and life's mountains became surmountable molehills.

But when Indonesian authorities learned that a Mexican swine flu had gone global, that hub became a surreal microcosm of flu politics.

The project became really complicated and expensive, like a microcosm of any other space mission.

It should slowly become clear that I love just about everything about everything in Mad Max: Fury Road, but this is a microcosm of it all.

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.»

The characters are a microcosm brought together for survival, like a precursor to the many disaster films that would become a staple of cinema in future decades.

So that one game, that one instance becomes kind of a microcosm of this evolution in game design philosophy.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

In the latter work, ants clustered on a decomposing apple become a kind of microcosm, one that is differently explored in Born Better (2013) and Loose Laces (2014), where the natural world is pictured as both increasingly alien and as the heart of our own evolving (or perhaps devolving) ecosystem.

From absence of gravity and washing machine windows, the artist's everyday microcosm has become a means to convey the sentiments of an entire generation, one that grew up through images broadcast on television.

The exhibition's title alludes to this gesture; the grand celestial system that governs the universe becomes a descriptive metaphor for the microcosm of the artist's own thought process.

The three videos play simultaneously, allowing Oliver to stretch time, the body, and space as the circle of his head becomes both a macrocosm of the universe and a microcosm of the body.

Upon closer inspection, the individual scenes become theatrical microcosms in which Kolding's themes are acted out.

«No form of transport was as romantic, remarkable or contested as the ocean liner and their design became a matter of national prestige as well as a microcosm of global dynamics and competition.»

«It became clear,» writes Revkin, acclaimed science reporter for The New York Times, «that the murder was a microcosm of the larger crime: the unbridled destruction of the last great reservoir of biological diversity on Earth.»