His dual role deals in extremes, from the microscopic detail of the stop-motion process to the big-picture realities of running a company.

While biomolecules help researchers zoom into microscopic detail, other approaches let them zoom out.

Doubtless the world's security chiefs are now poring over the incident in microscopic detail, trying to work out what steps can be taken to make sure it never happens again.

The successful applicant must be willing to have his or her private life picked over in microscopic detail by journalists.

Landscapes and architectural settings were miniaturize; however, details of nature- leaves, flowers, insects, birds- are rendered with near microscopic detail.