milieu

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Ms. Collinsworth, a former publisher and magazine editor, gives readers a close-up view of an ambitious freethinker and a lively picture of the milieu in which she operated.

From The Wall Street Journal

Better is Mr. Burnett’s movie, which also has a specific sense of milieu, albeit in a very different setting: South Central Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal

A lively and fluent writer, Mr. Kurlansky, the author of books on the Basques, cod, salt and other subjects, brings the Boston milieu to life with sympathy, verve and dry humor.

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It was in this milieu that Grimes settled down to make her “California album.”

From Salon

This was the milieu in which young Carol grew up.

From The Wall Street Journal