milieu

Uncertainty is his native milieu and improvisation his greatest skill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Slouchy hoodies over gossamer layers, wired cage-like corsets, an earthy milieu of silky, quilted and textured fabrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

She used her opportunity to create a warts-and-all portrait of her over-educated and downwardly mobile milieu.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Once outside the walls of Buddyland and into the surrounding wilderness, Kelly shifts from boxy TV framing and video texture to a cinematic widescreen ratio, but the milieu still seems half-real, half-stylized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Finally, adoption agencies routinely send staff members to evaluate the child’s milieu, and no reasonable agency is going to send an agent to Afghanistan.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Schumer, 74, and Jeffries, 55, hail from different Brooklyn milieus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Few milieus could be as seductively dramatic as that Chinese city in the 1930s, with its cosmopolitan glamour and wartime danger.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

But most television shows offer the conceit of characters inhabiting their own milieus.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2022

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

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

The remake runs twenty minutes longer than the original—twenty minutes that detail Priest’s audacious maneuverings and their grim effects in milieux left unexplored by the earlier film.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2018

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

Wonderful must it clearly have been still to fed amid laxities and vaguenesses such a difference of milieux and, as they used to say, of atmospheres.

From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James