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/mˌaɪkɹəʊkˈɒzmɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to or characteristic of a microcosm
the microcosmic world of business
How To Use microcosmic In A Sentence
- Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic.
- M.M. Salt of urine, called sal microcosmicum, phosphorated soda. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- The presence of ‘rue’ in ‘untrue’ would have appealed to a poet of Southwell's microcosmic bent, and his choice suggests that he was a careful and aware rhymer.
- One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.” The Catastrophist
- Modern other people sheds the category that management is a microcosmic economics.
- We should distinguish it into macroscopical and microcosmic labor axiology.
- The journalist, Gemma Soames, seems to be arguing that the recent Miss University London beauty pageant is a microcosmic example of a change in the focus of feminist activism by cis women away from a ‘retro’ (and, by implication, outmoded and irrelevant) feminism: Ohz noez! Not *another* 2008 roundup…
- Shonibare uses this microcosmically to depict his own life experiences, and macrocosmically to encapsulate what he conceives to be the hybrid, eclectic relationship between the West and the Orient.
- Therefore, we moved from a microcosmic view of the construction and maintenance of power dynamics to a macrocosmic view.
- For example, ‘These Foolish Things’ reflects, microcosmically, a number of Ferry's aesthetic preoccupations.