Sentence examples for milieus of from inspiring English sources

And Ruhl has great fun mocking the preposterous deluxe milieus of thirties comedies.

She seems refreshingly unschooled as she performs a series of deliberately naff dance manoeuvres in the grim urban milieus of a pool hall and a hairdresser's.

While "Summer Hours" is, by his own admission, a "very French" film, a return to the bourgeois milieus of "Late August, Early September" and "Les Destinées Sentimentales," it picks up the internationalist concerns of his recent work.

For whatever reasons, the seedier milieus of Boston have of late become favorite haunts for popular crime novelists and filmmakers like Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River") and Ben Affleck ("The Town"), a fashionable place to uncover dark secrets on mean streets.

Crime rates, gun ownership and prison populations have been falling since.By contrast, spanking is still common in large parts of America, especially in the Evangelical milieus of Southern states.

This lively history of the existentialist movement makes a strong, if sometimes disorienting, case for the inextricability of philosophy and biography, embedding dense concepts — such as "being," "nothingness," and "bad faith" — in the colorful lives and milieus of those who debated them.

The doomy milieu of "Millennium" is impressive but oppressive.

Much mental illness arises from a milieu of multiple deprivation.

The two men came of age in the more partisan milieu of British journalism.

Islanders point out the special milieu of a life surrounded by water.

Peter Wood discerns in the Duke undergrad culture a widening milieu of studied vulgarity.