milieu
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The former is set in early ’80s L.A. among the same milieu of nihilistic infants that the series’ co-creator, Bret Easton Ellis, has been surveying since the ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mr. Graham-Dixon advises that we “keep an open mind” about Vermeer’s milieu, and that it is “better to be flexible than over-precise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Like the milieu in which they’re set, prison movies can be terribly constricting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The portraits play off the novel’s milieu: a series of churches, as well as the medieval French castle that is home to an eccentric and mostly absent prince.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Multi-part performance in either the vocal or instrumental milieu is cognitively beneficial, and will increase a child’s musical competence.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Schumer, 74, and Jeffries, 55, hail from different Brooklyn milieus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The prototypical form is the internet meme, often used in modern conspiracy milieus.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
Her writing and exploits took her through the worlds of L.A. literature, art, film and music, milieus she described indelibly and influenced deeply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
These sprawling novels of galactic milieus, giant orbitals and even larger A.I. ships and their various machinations offer one of the most compelling and sustained visions of a far-flung future.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Forests, for example, release a complex chemical milieux into the air.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
These scientific milieux shaped their inquiries and practices, and enabled them to contest and advance knowledge.
From Nature ● Sep. 16, 2019
From the mucousy milieux of Alien's xenomorphs to the synthetic, sentient puddle of Terminator 2's T-1000, there was something especially slimy running straight through the 1980s.
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017
Now, with the death of my parents in the last three years, I feel a sense of loss about their beginnings in the milieux that gave them their personalities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2017
To sum up: There are in me certain milieux especially favorable to imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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