Sentences with word «microcosmic»

A self - aggrandizing motormouth, he nonetheless, within this warped microcosmic world, genuinely seems to care for Harley.

Jeff Donaldson made paintings as both positive affirmations of blackness and as microcosmic depictions of utopian futures and dynamic black bodies.

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

A very tangible microcosmic example of the shift being described is the emergence of the Birthright Israel program, which has already taken more than 100,000 children with one or two Jewish parents to Israel.

The deeply ingrained commonsense view that cause and effect are often, if not always, simultaneous is derived from experiences at the macrocosmic level and does not apply to the world of microcosmic entities.

He works onsite, with attention to the slow, unfolding process of seeing and a meticulous, almost microcosmic depiction of detail.

«I debuted in New York with just five works - monochromatic and simple, yet complex, subconscious accumulations of microcosmic lights, in which the spatial universe unfolds as far as the eye can see.

Like sensory deprivation chambers, they leave the viewer grappling to reconcile the totality of the cosmos with a sense of microcosmic infinity within the body,» said Michael Rooks, the High's Wieland Family curator of modern and contemporary art.

Annabel Osberg of the Huffington Post describes Honarvar's work as presenting «the human body at the center of microcosmic theaters of dichotomy in which irrationality permeates logic, serenity belies violence, and luxury secretes exploitation.»

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.

This second act really has its own microcosmic three act structure, predominantly tracking the relationship between Pi and his tiger acquaintance Richard Parker.

The multiplicity is composed of microcosmic res verae, each embodying the principle bounded flux acquiring «everlasting» permanence.

The spirit / word / thought that made the actualization of Jesus possible is not just a supreme microcosmic example, but indeed to be identified with the SP, God - for - us, as the ultimate cause of the entire creation.

And sometimes ethnic divisions even became microcosmic, with different factions sharing everything about their culture except the particular village of origin back home.

Disclosures can occur which do not arise around personal or moral behavior but around cosmic events or microcosmic phenomena.

7 To see this unambiguously one must look over the whole range of events from microcosmic to macrocosmic, and one must choose the same type of event at every level.

Obviously, Jesus would not cut those things which helps human advancement or microcosmic advancement toward its desideratum.

Physics can allow for indeterminacy in particular microcosmic occurrences without rejecting the predictability that occurs when large numbers of these occurrences coalesce to make up macroscopic entities.

And traditional philosophies have often regarded our own individual cognitional faculties as microcosmic instances of a macrocosmic mind or logos that runs throughout the purposive universe.

Finally, if it turns out that it is indeed possible to transform the behavior of imperceptible individuals into a form which can be appreciated empathically by people, then we could conceivably use behavioral assay procedures to look for macrocosmic as well as microcosmic individuals.

I think that's quite microcosmic of a good society.»

The tantrics saw themselves as microcosmic reflections of the universe and understood the chakras as the controlling points of the various factors (solid, liquid, luminous, aerial and etherial) that the Cosmic Mind uses to create everything in the universe.

Menashe as a whole is appropriately microcosmic, existing within a cultural center outsiders aren't normally allowed entry into.

A country singer in Altman's microcosmic epic, Black held her own in an impressive ensemble and also earned a Grammy nomination for the song she penned and sang.

It's 1970 at Gordita Beach, a fictional SoCal beach town, space - case magnet, and microcosmic petri dish.

The brilliance of Changing Lanes is that it measures each step in the pair's microcosmic conflict against larger issues of racism and the economic and social glass ceilings that dictate each character's decisions.

What the movie became — as everyone couldn't help but notice at the time of its original release — is a film in which the «background» (nature, the landscape) moves into the foreground and the human characters recede into macrocosmic expanses of earth and sky, and microcosmic observations of flora and fauna.

Director Larysa Kondracki and co-writer Eilis Kirwan fashion the screenplay as one woman's hunt for the truth and pursuit of justice, and it's unfortunate the movie loses that personal, microcosmic perspective to go after bigger targets.

A trifle, perhaps, but an affectionate, microcosmic glimpse nonetheless of a social landscape forged by its immigrant population.

His ability to make microcosmic stories speak to a vast audience of readers is something that literature won't repeat soon.

These subtle interventions occasionally house microcosmic activity in the form of synthetic, miniature structures of painted polymer clay along with moss, fungi, plants and other organic materials.

Most iconic among his works are his box constructions — microcosmic curiosity cabinets — filled with once - precious fragments that he collected in thrift shops in his native New York.

In contrast to the verticality of traditional sculpture, these fountains descend into underground microcosmic topographies that recall the banks of a river or the bottom of a lake, as it reveals fictitious undergrowth uncovered by the removal of a few paving stones.

Her drawings are often large and kinetic charcoal universes, neither bodies nor landscapes but microcosmic resolutions of form and psyche.

Contemporary artists have moved into that «blur», so to speak, and well beyond (the faded, the cropped, the restaged / reframed, angled and pitched, spotlit and strobed), to deliver a kind of fragmented or microcosmic moment.

Focusing on humankind's obsessive relationship to computers and other virtual platforms, the works in this exhibition are microcosmic scenes that convey the varied nature of these relationships, such as obsession, escapism, isolation and sexual fetish.

In merging his previously autonomous Kandor and EAPR projects, Kelley suggests an innate relationship between our own respective microcosmic realities and subsequent conditional behavior.

Audiences are invited to celebrate images of intense sexual chemistry, interactive prints with mixed pheromones, sculptural installations made of growing crystals, very large microcosmic photographs, paintings depicting molecular structures and alchemical laboratories and a dedicated screening room featuring films about liquid forms, universe and drugs.

Amy Gross's pair of «Cultured Biotopes» combine fabric, paper, beads and embroidery to evoke plantlike forms, although the pieces» roughly spherical shapes suggest they're microcosmic planets.

Calling the series «Coexistence,» Mizuno begins by studding the surfaces of his works with holes, creating opportunistic spaces for various species of mosses to grow in patterns that evoke microcosmic, zen - like landscapes.

If the profession is split on what St - Cloud stands for, it is a perfect microcosmic example of one of the problems in criminal justice.

Huawei has designed the rear panel of the Honor Holly 2 Plus with a premium plastic material that has several microcosmic planes to produce different textures.

These Zen Masters practice what's called the «microcosmic orbit» which essentially takes the sexual energy that «stagnates in the genitals» and uses breathing to push that energy around the body.

Harsha's work entwines strands of personal biography with the shared narratives and broader socio - political scenarios of our at once macrocosmic and microcosmic world.