Sentences with phrase «contained microcosm»

Even more exciting is the possibility that the coffins might contain a microcosm of the Earth's atmosphere, captured before industrialisation and preserved for the past 300 years.

Individually, each glass section contains a microcosm of controlled chaos.

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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.

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.

Each microcosm contained the same amount of water and sediment from the lake.

Directed by Quentin Lawrence and based on a television film he had directed earlier, the entire film is kept to a couple of sets and a small, contained cast, and the controlled microcosm is part of what makes it work, as the threats are all outside the walls, unseen and only heard over a phone line or described by the charmingly commanding Morell.

Puppy Class contains a mix of people AND puppies; the experience is microcosm of what you and your puppy will encounter in day - to - day life.

Conceived as a Tokyo neighbourhood in microcosm, this «hamlet» home of 10 rooms (each in fact a self - contained building) is connected by an elegant courtyard filled with trees and potted plants.

These three - dimensional snapshots of nature are neatly contained within vintage suitcases and steamer trunks, suggesting exploration and travel in a microcosm of a larger world.