Sentences with word «microcosm»

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

She created tableaux using dolls and dollhouses, toy cowboys, dummies, and props, resulting in microcosms of commentary on domestic roles, situations and stereotypes.

From one perspective, churches can be seen as microcosms of society, constituted by lay and non-lay members within structures extending throughout Australia.

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.

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

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

But there's so many microcosms within the city, including areas popular with students and where the locals actually hang out.

The sequel does a much better job of bringing the player in, with an introductory sequence and first act that serve as a perfect microcosm of what the game has to offer, and sets up the world and foundation for the narrative.

They had lots of challenges, but it was like a little microcosm of what could be done on a great scale.

The archaic vision offers a fairly clear parallel between microcosm and macrocosm, between the little story of my life and the overall foundational story on which «my» existence as an archaic man rested.

If you are interested in food production and service, hospitals are there own microcosms of activity.

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

While it's sometimes easier to focus on microcosm issues, Dr. Cadwell says, «We really work to focus on the things where most people can be helped.»

It really is like a small microcosm of life itself.

Its conclusion beyond ridiculous with its cheery epilogue of Shaw - on - a-rope the stuff of camp legend, Black Sunday is, in a self - contained microcosm, the decline of mainstream film from the Coppola of The Conversation to the Coppola of Jack — a shrinking away from dialogues that matter in favour of pomp and hollow circumstance.

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.

Carl Zimmer continues his discussion of E. coli, the bacteria that are the subject of his new book Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life.

The director and his crew had nearly a year of pre-production to imagine this scorched «or rather, freezer - burned — earth and the film's movable social microcosm in all its details.

And I think that beyond that, beyond the kind of scientific relationship between mirror cells and mirror neurons, we even liked the way the phrase mirror cells somehow seemed to get the idea of these works being kind of individual microcosms that reflect the world or reflect the artist's own experiences.

Geneva - based French artist Vidya Gastaldon creates microcosms of hallucinatory, saccharine symbols with her sculptures, drawings, video animations, and prints.

Challenging the idea of what is cherished in nature by celebrating the beauty of the overlooked and the imperfect, the exhibition, titled Spring Microcosm, ran from March 6 to April 6, and featured exquisitely rendered colored pencil on paper drawings of broken branches, peeling sycamore bark, bug - eaten leaves and flower buds.

«The exhibition will be a journey; a walk through microcosms of the world today based on the stratum of history, human knowledge, emotions, desires and beliefs, as well as the mysteries of natural phenomena and the whole of the universe.»

Humerous, «quarky,» and succinctly elegant in her description of the cultural microcosm that is AA.

This makes theological schools, for all their relatively small size, very complex microcosms of their larger siblings in academe and, indeed, of their larger social and cultural worlds.

The three artists in Sweet Creature use their practices to explore microcosms of how power operates, manifesting spaces for dialogues that are productively uncomfortable.

The study also included the reverse of the earlier colonization history, allowing the competitor bacteria to establish themselves in microcosms before introducing the P. fluorescens.

Graham Caldwell's ethereal glass sculptures depict an organic microcosm that is both seductive and repulsive.

«Lively, funny... philosophical... an intriguing microcosm of the tensions between the hip - hop generation and its civil - rights - era forebears.»

At once ultra-feminine, thoroughly organic, suffocating yet teeming with life, Kooi creates highly detailed microcosms that seem to flourish entirely on their own energy.

You're a journalist, immersed in the brouhaha of the news and the petty microcosm of Paris, but now through the device of a singular novel you look at the world through...

Singapore is a very interesting, high - tech microcosm in which you can expect that new technologies, wherever they're developed on the globe, will be made available promptly.

In that situation, your free lunch isn't free; instead, it's a veritable microcosm for everything that's wrong with charity in America, as Daniel Gross writes in this provocative article, Fifteen Dollars» Worth of Smug: What a New York law firm's charity - lunch program reveals about America (Slate, 7/17/07).

In what are called microcosm experiments, plant physiologists study leaves in sealed containers so their gas exchange can be tracked, but that gives information only on the leaf's relationship to the atmosphere, not that of the whole plant, its soil, and other plants and animals.

That brings us full circle, to the creation of a new community — albeit one mainly within the confines of a specific creative class — that fed off, and legitimately added to, the teeming microcosm around it.

We're also surrounded by «perfection» when we live in our digital microcosms.

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.

Contemporary photography - based prints by Ann Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, present a compelling microcosm of America's current art scene.

The concise and focused activity of Larry Poons is abstract and allows a multitude of readings, yet his intense microcosm shows the artist's immense energy and employment of astonishing rhythmic vitality.

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.

Maryland, Mr. Haller said, tends to be a «demographic microcosm of the nation» because of its rural, suburban,...

rather than that which obviously passes for life in your mini microcosm existence

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.

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

Long - term microcosm experiments are providing insights into potential outcomes with regard to seasonal change and acclimatization adaptation [85,111,112].

Using inspiration from studies at National Geographic, Chiou has brought to life ethereal images that can at once suggest intergalactic formations or unseen microcosms.