Sentences with phrase «microcosm of»

Amazon isn't the only disruption to the traditional publishing model and the Hachette conflict is a microcosm of the larger waves being made in how writing is packaged and distributed.

All this just screams of a total lack of control on RIMs parts and a real microcosm of their state in the industry

The comics industry has been a kind of sudden compressed microcosm of all this, I'd like to call it nonsense, but it's turning into actual danger.

Twenty - six breezy, accessible poems explore in close - up detail the intriguing microcosm of the forest, exploring its lush sensory experiences throughout the seasons and its charmingly diverse cast of characters, including a courting frog and maple leaves affecting fall color.

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.

In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country - as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness.

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.

It seemed Shultz's cast of characters were a microcosm of most of the people in my life.

Rather, these correspondences are simply a manifestation of the cosmic mirror that makes man a microcosm of the universal macrocosm.

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.

They occupy a filthy, muddled, made - up little microcosm of affected mannerisms, inspiring quotations, drunkenness, secrets, contradictory philosophies and repressed affections.

That's a microcosm of the Dream Cruise, the annual late - summer staple in metro Detroit.

Corvette Racing's Sebring record is a microcosm of its success since it debuted in 1999.

Morning brings a tour of Jefferson Avenue, a concrete microcosm of the city and its troubling divisions.

We believe that a Facing History and Ourselves classroom is in many ways a microcosm of democracy — a place where explicit rules and implicit norms protect everyone's right to speak; where different perspectives can be heard and valued; where members take responsibility for themselves, each other, and the group as a whole; and where each member has a stake and a voice in collective decisions.

This is a microcosm of the difficult, ultimately student - focused, results - motivated investigation we must take to the nation.

The classroom culture is just a microcosm of the school culture.

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.

These local conditions often are microcosm of national trends.

The genius of these famous people is a microcosm of the people in our world today.

Unfortunately, Manual is also a microcosm of IPS and of many parts of the nation.

There are a lot of New York - specific intricacies to the debate — namely, the state's Race To The Top application didn't change the existing charter school law regarding teacher evaluations and the state's education department authorizes many of the state's charter schools — but it is a microcosm of the larger debate.

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.

That doesn't mean every school on our list is a demographic microcosm of its community.

What we can do is put our efforts toward making our local world a microcosm of what we want the country to be.

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.

It is a true microcosm of the world, and if your eye on the prize is always about your students and doing what's in their best interests, you map out a way to make it happen.

Table - top games can be a microcosm of a child's world, where they get to experience plenty of fun, but also to exercise their competitive spirit, to feel what it's like to win or to lose and gradually learn to accept that both of these are a normal part of life.

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

As the Kauffman report notes, Missouri's separate pension systems are «a microcosm of larger national issues concerning teacher pension systems — particularly the ability of teachers to move between systems.»

Nux is a microcosm of what makes

Her journey, a microcosm of the American Dream as seen through the life of an immigrant, is continuously and consistently heartbreaking, full of misunderstandings both cultural and linguistic, that all you want to do is hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay, even if her journey is the most foolish of errands.

Nux is a microcosm of what makes Mad Max: Fury Road the film it is.

The humour begins to expand into a wider world of beasts and ghouls each with their own microcosm of tropes and clichés to make fun of, but I won't spoil the surprises.

Vienna 1956: Though the microcosm of one family's joys and sorrows, first time filmmaker Sandra Wollner tells a haunting tale of daily life in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

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.»

Designed as a ruthless satire of everything from Youtube celebrity to viral videos to America Idol / The Voice culture, a microcosm of a world in which website hits directly correlate with self - worth (hence the film's title).

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 the dumpling itself — the way it's used and what it represents — is a perfect microcosm of the movie as a whole.

Amy Jump adapted the screenplay from Ballard's novel, and in the blink of an eye, the tone shifts from a microcosm of a decaying society and class warfare to all - out anarchy and hedonism.

A perfect microcosm of the film itself — brilliantly acted, simultaneously funny and unsettling, its true heartbreak and horror resonating even more powerfully with hindsight.

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.

His life is a microcosm of contemporary Chinese history.

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.

The best ending in years is just a microcosm of the greatness of «Whiplash.»

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

Do it well, and you can have something like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, a portrait of the man that frames the macrocosm of his life through the microcosm of a specific event.

The CG spectacle just leaves me cold and even within this shoddy genre there was a kind of microcosm of humanity displayed in those early disaster movies that really isn't present in these newer versions.

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 concept of a microcosm of society to demonstrate social unrest between classes is a well - worn idea — High - Rise may find a very close cousin in last year's Snowpiercer — but this is one of the more direct and slickly executed interpretations of the theme, only treading on the brink of science - fiction.