Bliss and Susan embody the tolerant milieu.
The production's strengths lie in its delineation of the characters' precarious emotional lives and the liberal sexual milieu in which they move.
Played by the 19-year-old Adèle Exarchopoulos, an acting revelation, she is thrown into disarray, then ecstasy, then melancholy by an explosive love affair with Emma Léa Seydouxx), an art student from a liberal-intellectual milieu, with gamine looks and blue-dyed hair.
A significant proportion of Seattleites, however, profess no religion; although statistics on the question are inexact, statewide religious surveys reveal that anywhere from one-sixth to one-fourth of Washingtonians are atheists, agnostics, or otherwise unaffiliated, and Seattle's liberal social and political milieu suggests that the city has at least the same proportion of nonreligious citizens.
In reality, the Soviet economy could not accommodate them all: as the Soviet joke had it, they "pretended to work and the state pretended to pay .A large number of educated, intelligent and underemployed people in their 30s and 40s with little prospect of moving up the career ladder provided a perfect milieu for brewing liberal ideas.
In subsequent works, Rawls backed off this ambitious program, choosing instead to situate his social contract theory within the historical-cultural-political milieu of a liberal, democratic society.
She told me about Beirut's unique blend of European sophistication and liberal leanings in an Arab milieu.
But before all that, she was the middle child in a New York family whose intellectual dynamism and embrace of liberal causes provide a window onto the social milieu and culture that shaped her.
Allen's ideas, too, are a reflection of his milieu, of the inner conflicts of the secular liberal Jewish intellectual: he holds nothing sacred but believes that some things are, nonetheless, sacred.
