milieu
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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
“It seems like they haven’t really given credit to women in an independent milieu who have organized a lot of female-only shows for years,” Brownstein told the Dallas Observer in 1998.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
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
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
These narratives are like the water that we swim in, and hence are invisible to many people within these milieus.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
In the 40 years since, she has become internationally renowned for vivid portraits of her intimates — as well as European aristocrats and celebrities — all framed within their own rarefied milieus.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
“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
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
The lifetimes of Merchant and Ivory spanned generations in which the cultural landscape changed slowly but radically; they both came from milieux in which being openly gay wasn’t common or acceptable.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
To sum up: There are in me certain milieux especially favorable to imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
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