As someone who has proclaimed herself a "southern girl twice over" (a reference to my place of birth, South Vietnam, and my first home in the United States, North Carolina), I found myself a very long way from my known milieus.
Unek et al. [ 18] report that obese patients show a significant increase in hsCRP and soluble CD40 ligand levels compared with normal weight subjects, which might contribute to the known proinflammatory milieu found in these patients.
Second rule: know your milieu.
The playwright, Raymond Jones, knows the milieu.
Viewers already know the milieu, the accent and the attitude.
Her aim was to entertain, and she did, but she knew her milieu.
From "Pop a Rubber Band" to "Wobble" to songs with unprintable titles, these men know their milieu; they never met a stripper they didn't want to rap about.
That was one reason why he was the perfect man to edit The Hugo Young Papers: he knew the milieu, he knew the politics and he understood the attitudes reflected in the prodigious mass of unpublished, and often untidy, material left by Hugo when he died".
Mr. Hassman obviously knows the milieu of his play well; the two 60-something characters, Neil and Timothy, are both designers, former business partners and former lovers, and the play takes place in Neil's apartment, an elegant Upper East Side floor-through with a garden beyond the windowed doors in the back.
In a milieu known for swallowed words and held tongues (to go with surreptitious elbows and deployable fists), hockey players occasionally open up on the subject of Sean Avery.
Irma (Jennifer Bowles) is a kind-hearted prostitute working in Paris's famously racy Pigalle area, and, more specifically, in a nefarious environ known as Le Milieu.
