Sentences with 'microcosm'
Example sentences and phrases with the word microcosm and other words derived from it.
• « Like the Chinese, the Indian sages believed in the similarity between the macrocosm and the microcosm that is man. Five energies - earth, water, air, fire and space - nourished and marked the rhythms of the body. »
• « This attitude was a microcosm of the attitude of Europeans towards most of the world at the time: foreign territories were prizes for the taking, the identities of the people who lived in them and the states that ruled them were of little consequence thanks to the (short-lived, as it turned out) superiority of European arms and technology. »
• « One place in Europe during the interwar period stands out as a microcosm of the political and cultural struggles occurring elsewhere: Weimar Germany. Named after the spa town where its constitution was drafted in early 1919, the Weimar Republic represented a triumphant culmination of liberalism. »
• « The vacant lot of my childhood was a microcosm of life; a practice field. I knew it in detail. I loved it intensely. »