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microcosm

, microcosmos
man regarded as epitomizing the universe
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Meanwhile, it can be inferred that microcosmic motion of the brake components should be investigated, especially the contact status between pads and disc.
Thus, the caustic nature of Knorr's intervention is twofold, suggesting that the viewer is meant to reflect on the ways in which the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the human body and the social body are here conceptually conflated, but in reality are systemically and biopolitically intertwined.
These are the Memoir Fantasy (1870-1896), which "focuses on the life stories of animals or inanimate objects" (16); the "Monello" Fantasy (1897-1908), with its rascally protagonists; the Microcosmic Fantasy (1908-15); the Quest Fantasy (1915-18); the Surreal Fantasy (1919-29); the Superhero Fantasy (1930-39); the Community Fantasy (1945-50), which "describes the lives of communities of anthropomorphized animals and plants" (17); the Pinocchiesque Fantasy (1950-80); and the Compensatory Fantasy (1980-2010), which "uses magic to offset suffering and unhappiness in the primary world" (17).
Many of the year's best political documentaries took a microcosmic perspective into the lives of those who were facing something much larger than themselves.
Fattal's work reforms the gallery space into a sort of temple, a microcosmic universe riddled with totem and ritual.
The story of the building's history provides, in some ways, a microcosmic crash course on the past century in Providence: Built by the Episcopal Church in 1912 to provide a social-services center, a chapel, and housing for the poor, it devolved into what in recent years was essentially a flophouse and strip club.
Bobby is able to take a microcosmic look at modern society and through the essays included here and is able to prove just that, that fairy tales reflect our society and values and allow us through each tale to see our world on a microcosmic level so we can better understand the world around us.
Fingertips cut through the swirling pools of microcosmic intimacy..."
In this paper, on the basis of extensive field investigations of rock joint surface shapes, generalized models for three level shapes such as macroscopic outline, surface undulating shape, and microcosmic roughness were established through statistical analyses of 20,078 rock joint surface profiles.
Through experimentation with scale and the notion of altered perspective, Microcosmic Fantasy (1908-1915) described the adventures of magically-transformed protagonists as they traveled through microcosmic societies.
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