Sentence examples for provocative milieu from inspiring English sources
The collage-based works of this extraordinarily inventive printmaker remain as some of the finest fossils of pop art, fetishizing the unconventional, the crude and the gruff into a new and provocative milieu.
The provocation proved provocative.
Cross-sectional analysis by NGS-derived phenotypes and risk factors in the EMR would facilitate more precise clinical decision making, for instance, whether shortening patient time in intensive care units or decreasing use of provocative antibiotics would be more preventive within the local milieu.
Abraham did not seem to be playing with gender roles in "Pavement," but much of the music was in the form of arias sung by the young French sopranist countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, whose remarkable high, clear voice evoked the castrati of centuries ago — a provocative backdrop for a work based in a testosterone-filled milieu.
The "Rosenkavalier," masterminded by Robert Carsen, was at once evocative, provocative, and dramatically tight: the plot unfolded in Austria on the eve of the First World War, in a milieu of bombastic parades and tacky brothels.
From the day his first novel, The Tin Drum, appeared in 1959, with its surreal and mocking take on Nazism and the petit bourgeois milieu in which Hitlerism thrived, Grass's typical stance has been that of a public gadfly, provocative, non-conformist, forcing his compatriots to examine themselves and their past, and enjoying the controversy he aroused.
Friedrich towered in his milieu.
Second rule: know your milieu.
Relaxation is not her milieu.
