Word: microcosms
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...money is appealing to upscale sunseekers like the Harveys. They walk to the gym every morning and, although they have a car, they can take a bus almost anywhere they want to go locally or catch a 20-minute train to Málaga. Their compound is a European microcosm, and they take Spanish classes - subsidized by the local government - with Scandinavians, Chinese, Russians, Poles, Austrians and Americans. The Harveys qualify for Spanish social security and are reassured by the presence of excellent hospitals. "Here, even the children and teenagers are polite," says Anne. "You wouldn't find that...
...mysteriously empty. The poem ends with tiresome transcendence. “Walking home, for a moment /you almost believe you could start again. /And an intense love rushes to your heart /and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable,” he writes. These lines could be a microcosm of the whole collection: well-crafted, heartfelt, and boring...
...already under Iraqi control. They have even concocted a name for the turf that lies between the U.S.-controlled areas of the compound, known as the Green Zone, and the uneasy "Red Zone" of Baghdad: it?s called the Amber Zone - and it has become, in many ways, a microcosm of the dilemmas facing the Americans as they try to pull back from the rest of Iraq...
...Lala ’07, the president of the Harvard Interfaith Council, said that the Salient’s decision to print the cartoons brought the international issue closer to home and made Harvard seem like “a microcosm of the whole world,” she said...
These women span the ideological divide with respect to American militarism. Both have dedicated their lives to the service of the same government, but their personal experiences have driven them to opposite conclusions about its virtue—their disagreement is a microcosm of the national discourse...