Sentence examples for milieu like from inspiring English sources

I appeared to take to sixth-form college and its deceptively welcoming milieu like a duck to water.

But the film nicely incorporates its minor figures into its sociological milieu, like the two little children who are among Joe's next of kin.

For a denizen of a looks-centric milieu like Los Angeles, Ms. Rasin, who emigrated from Ukraine in 1992, may seem like a plastic surgery late bloomer.

And the critical respect offered to female film-makers who work in a macho (and thus, acceptable) milieu, like Kathryn Bigelow, should be extended to those who make "women's movies", too.

The milieu, like that in a Greek or Jacobean play, is tribal, and its codes of family solidarity and blood vengeance give even its most senseless acts of violence a solemn, terrible meaning.

I still think that at times this film, Arnold's first set in the US, looks a bit self-conscious in its learned Americanness and white-trash milieu, like a very accomplished pastiche homage to Larry Clark, Harmony Korine or the Gus Van Sant of Elephant: it's presented in the austerely boxy aspect ratio of 4 3, to emphasise single shots and closeups.

Harvey knows the gamblers, the limo drivers, the enforcers, but he's not ruthless enough for his chosen milieu; he likes peace and quiet around him, a proper level of civilization no matter how rough the game.

My parents largely avoided — and sneered at — the immigrant milieus like those of Brighton Beach.

As such, Hermès lately devotes a great deal of time and a massive amount of money to staging events worldwide that showcase its processes in unexpected milieus like South Korea and Tasmania.

You may not always see the people for the production design in these, but when you do — as in "Romeo + Juliet" and sometimes here — they spring forth from their fantastical milieus like fists.

"A Dating Story," which has new episodes just once a week on The Learning Channel and draws a quarter of its limited dating pool from the New York area, has ventured into less predictable milieus like a funeral director's convention and a gospel church in Harlem.