Sentence examples for violent milieu from inspiring English sources

There, as in Toback's third feature, "Exposed" (which played at Film Society of Lincoln Center last weekend), a refined musician of extraordinary sensibility is also a man making his way in a violent milieu.

They dance, threaten, fight, embrace, rally round the flag -- or flags, since one character, has a son serving the crown in World War I -- as their loyalties to one another shift in an increasingly violent milieu.

The elements of the violent milieu are mutually reinforcing and need to be taken into account collectively in responding to both individual cases and framing public health initiatives.

Guillaume Bresson is a young painter who ingests the pictorial geometries of artists like Caravaggio and deploys them to comment obliquely on the often violent multicultural milieu of his own upbringing in a Paris suburb.

After 2001, according to a study entitled "Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime," the "violent extremist nationalist milieu" — encompassing such groups as the B.N.P. and, lately, the E.D.L. — began to shift the focus of its opprobrium from race to religion.

There's no one reason he found himself high and hiking up Topanga Canyon, no one reason why he agreed when a slight, shirtless guy with a guitar said, "Won't you stay and make music with us?" I believe this, yet I do look for my father in the artefacts of the Manson Family, a violent, misogynistic, drug-hazed milieu often and aptly described as "random" and "senseless".

Usually, they represent the most extreme and violent incarnations of a wider milieu or social movement.

Violent men die violently.

The poorly chosen overseers played a large role in bringing down the mob in Las Vegas, generally being far too violent and unsophisticated to operate in a milieu that demanded a veneer of respectability.

As they investigate, they are plunged into a milieu in which drug-trafficking and violent religious hatred undermine the very stability of Paris.

Reminiscent of John Ford's "The Searchers," it's set in a milieu akin in many ways to the rampantly violent Wild West, and Ying and his screenwriter, Peng Shan, elicit from their subject a similarly high moral purpose.