Sentence examples for milieu of which from inspiring English sources

Kansas City was the milieu of which Hemingway, in the story "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (describing a young man's self-castration), wrote, "The dirt blew off the hills that now have been cut down, and Kansas City was very like Constantinople".

What makes the movie an improvement on its antecedent isn't the virtuousness of its characters and the right attitudes that it espouses but the apparent engagement of the filmmakers the director, Nicholas Stoller, and a host of screenwriters, some credited, some not with the specifics, the ideas, and the implications of the milieu of which they make comic hay.

While Neel's contemporaries and friends in New York, where she lived, were making abstract painting or pop art, she stuck doggedly to painting portraits throughout her life, capturing not only the city's artistic milieu of which she was part, but bundles of fragility and uncertainty within it.

They mostly portray women, and the settings and dress of her subjects reflect the relatively affluent and educated milieu of which the Rix family were part.

My two assailants move in overlapping social milieus, of which I was or am a member.

In documenting the milieu out of which the album came, Walsh also argues for Boston as an underappreciated hub of late-sixties radicalism, artistic invention, and social experimentation.

Marker's films with Resnais go some way towards suggesting the rich personal history and postwar milieu out of which La Jetée emerged.

The answer has less to do with some Greek sense of the inevitability of Western individualism triumphing over Eastern authoritarianism — an attractive reading to various constituencies at various times — than it does with the scientific milieu out of which Herodotus drew his idea of historiē.