milieu

Uncertainty is his native milieu and improvisation his greatest skill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

“If he’d been born in the U.S. he’d be the CEO of a company or some wunderkind. It’s sort of unfortunate he was born in the milieu that he was. He’d be successful anywhere.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

As so often in Hitchcock’s work, the choice of milieus determines the suspense and the moral significance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“I’ve met the real people that are in this book and have been in the milieus that are in this book,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

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

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2022

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

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