In such a milieu, he said, a desire for physical intimacy is acute.
It is surprising that in such a milieu Mr. Obama got the applause that he did.
As befitted such a milieu, music played a significant role in the family.
But UnitedLex's managers acknowledged that such a milieu hardly made for compelling television.
Such a milieu could easily have produced a melodrama of the gay-martyr type, but "Fellow Travelers," which has a libretto by Greg Pierce, is after something different.
In such a milieu, whites could claim to be tolerant and post-racial in their attitudes and yet, in the privacy of their home or behind the anonymity of the voting booth curtain, still harbour distaste or suspicion toward blacks.
Because I sure as hell want to know that ALL THE TERRORISTS IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CAPTURED before legislators actually take the time to rename their GODDAMN CAFETERIA FOOD!" In such a milieu, then, it's no surprise to find ourselves talking about "extraordinary renditions".
Such movements' milieu is usually a toxic one; a stew of half-truths, conspiracy theories, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism; and, in the United States, given America's mythology as a place where the little man can always succeed simply by hard work and a little bit of pluck, it is often garnished with a vaguely-defined anti-government'ism.
He could hardly be held accountable, or evaluated intelligently by his superiors, when operating within such a milieu.
Certainly, in such a milieu, it is odd to hear anyone protest that the U.N. Secretary-General also needs a more colorful personality.
