Sentence examples for seedy milieu from inspiring English sources
But that first hint of it as a seedy milieu was straightaway discounted by the town, and by Greene himself, who should know.
In stark contrast to the creators of the stage version, Mr. Shankman, who directed the mediocre but better movie version of the musical "Hairspray," obviously had no real affinity for the music or the seedy milieu of "Rock of Ages".
In Arthur Penn's 1965 "Mickey One," starring Warren Beatty as a struggling nightclub comic, Eddie Sauter's eclectically influenced score doesn't just reaffirm that the hero is stuck in an excitingly seedy milieu.
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.
An enthusiast of the seedy side of show business, in particular vaudeville and the circus, Fellini returned to this milieu repeatedly, beginning with his first independent feature, Lo sceicco bianco (1952; The White Sheik), a satire on the fumetti (photographic comic strips) and their fanatical fans.
Friedrich towered in his milieu.
Second rule: know your milieu.
"It was gross and seedy".
Relaxation is not her milieu.
