“Precipitating events are treated as microcosmical events that, when combined with broader cultural variables, heighten potential rioter's perceptions of strain.”

“However Dalton did make some contributions on microcosmic salt and on a new method of analysing sugar.”

“Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic.”

“Monteith reads the novels included in her study as offering equivocal answers to this question of microcosmic social change.”