Noun, : a snobbish milieu. From Dictionary.com.
Heinlein mostly wrote slice-of-life stories set in various future milieux. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
We cannot disregard the social and economic milieux of the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
This was tons of groovy fun, and St. John does a fantastic job of evoking the exotic milieux. From Wordnik.com. [DIABOLUS by David St. John] Reference
Ce qui paraît évident dans certains milieux anglophones ne l'est pas chez les francophones. From Wordnik.com. [I Need to Blog More — Climb to the Stars] Reference
There is indeed something labored about the novel, its characters, plot, milieux are all contructed with effort. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
Most of the stories are set in varyingly 17th or 18th century milieux, with a heavy admixture of Hermetic magic. From Wordnik.com. [October Books 17) White Crow, by Mary Gentle] Reference
But it was very intelligent, designed to re-create itself when necessary, and so it hurriedly devised new milieux. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
But they were not general milieux, which every child would eventually discover and visit; they were for one child alone. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
Every once in a while in such milieux, I run into the complacent view that artists are doing good just by being artists. From Wordnik.com. [Using Your Powers for Good] Reference
Acknowledgments Since this novel is set in milieux that are unfamiliar to me, I have relied on various sources, especially. From Wordnik.com. [Enchantment]
Plus récemment, j'ai repris ce thème dans mes conférences sur la promotion du multilinguisme dans les milieux numériques. From Wordnik.com. [I Need to Blog More — Climb to the Stars] Reference
This was especially the case in France and most Irish clerical students there associated with milieux hostile to the movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum] Reference
It is therefore urgent to restore milieux and populations. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
A few actions in other milieux for you to ponder in the meantime. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
The novel's strength lies in its depiction of these three milieux. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog] Reference
That's why we need to hoist ourselves out of our comfortable milieux. From Wordnik.com. [O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.] Reference
Marras maintains two distinct design milieux to match his twin fashion hats. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Emigration for some underprivileged milieux has become a reason for existing. From Wordnik.com. [Bianet :: Bianet] Reference
… ça discréditait un président que n'apprécient guère certains milieux. From Wordnik.com. [French Ambassador Expelled from Madagascar Because he has Bad Luck?] Reference
They have failed, like all the juste-milieux of the world, and are laughed at for their eclecticism. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
Junot Diaz trumpeting their love of genre alongside their love of many other different cultural fields and milieux. From Wordnik.com. [Futurismic] Reference
Ce séjour dans des milieux si différents laissa dans son esprit une double impression qui se refléta sur toute sa vie. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
The study established a distribution model for each species at a time when humans exerted little pressure on the milieux. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
But they don't, because the offspring of immigrants are quickly absorbed into the dominant language milieux of North America. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Mais cette condamnation sans équivoque semble difficile à émettre au sein de certains milieux religieux d'autres confessions. From Wordnik.com. Reference
They are kinda outside my normal milieux, so I'm not putting the same kinda pressure on myself as I normally would with a portrait. From Wordnik.com. [The EDM SuperBlog] Reference
(Presumably ones where people don’t babble on about “milieux.”). From Wordnik.com. [The Real World] Reference
En règle générale, je suis bien plus à l’aise dans les milieux où l’on se tutoie. From Wordnik.com. [Sur l’arrière-train! — Climb to the Stars] Reference
"professional" equipment and milieux, opting instead to make work almost entirely using home stereo equipment. From Wordnik.com. [Melodiefabriek] Reference
I do not find the fact of homophobic men in the 1920s surprising, I just don’t expect them in artistic milieux. From Wordnik.com. [Breton’s homophobia « Jahsonic] Reference
That is, are there occupations or milieux that think of themselves as quintessentially “real,” and wouldn’t have it any other way?. From Wordnik.com. [The Real World] Reference
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