Sentences with phrase «veritable microcosm»

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).

They have brought back a veritable microcosm in amber of the plants and animals (see «Still life in amber», New Scientist, 6 February) that inhabited the tropical forests of the area some 35 million years ago, in mid-Tertiary times.

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I like to think it's so much more than just a travel site... indeed it is a veritable crucible of experiences thoughts and ideas imparted by the enlightened, the edified and the enriched... a microcosm of the entire universe even....