Sentence examples for local and universal from inspiring English sources

It's a rowdy piece of art; its concerns are local and universal.

The effort to preserve a square mile of ice in the equatorial sky could become a powerful local and universal symbol.

Certain works of fiction are so thoroughly identified with a particular place and time — the London of Sherlock Holmes, the Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe — that they become, by some strange alchemy, simultaneously local and universal.

García Márquez in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" narrated phantasmal and radiant inner lives and childhood memories as if they were more concrete than their surroundings, poetically fusing these to the cycles of local and universal history and nature and creating something both biblical-seeming and lavishly new and strange.

Born in 1968, the Mexican novelist Ignacio Padilla says: "Fuentes is like our grandfather; he's the best example that you can be both local and universal, read both as a portrait of Mexico and as an epic of the world looking for its own identity".

Low-latency network architectures are concerned with shortening the distances and number of hops between the user and the content, for example, by distributing some network functions that are centralized today or by applying local and universal caching as well as local breakouts to external networks like Internet, service provider, or enterprise networks.

Few films so daringly span the local and the universal — or look so ravishing while doing so.

It was possible to blend the local and the universal.

When I started concentrating on the concepts underlying the ideas in this book, I was awe-struck and enchanted not only by our current knowledge of our environment -- local, solar, galactic and universal -- but also by how much we ultimately hope to understand, from our random tiny perch here on Earth.

Celebrate the local, and then the universal.

I then note its capacity to bridge divides such as those separating past from present, local from universal, and nature from society.