Sentence examples for grey milieu from inspiring English sources

Curiously enough, though Brookner's art histories bubble with the delight of discovery and joyful exposition, her novels tend to describe a grey milieu of enervated, stranded and tentatively hopeless women.

"What are you going to wear?" I asked my friend, before she set off, mindful of the grey and drizzly weather and the fact that grand-style entertaining isn't her usual milieu.

The milieu is the Dublin of the 1940s and 1950s, a city hard now to conjure save in the tones of grey and grey-green.

Grey, grey, grey.

Second rule: know your milieu.

Friedrich towered in his milieu.

Relaxation is not her milieu.

In milieu at least.

Not a heartwarming milieu.

The cage is just the milieu.

The dance milieu is less enthusiastic.