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    milieu


    1. The use of the words "man," "men" and masculine pronouns is meant to include persons of both sexes and is indicative of the author’s historical and cultural milieu and not meant to portray Buddhism as a male-only pursuit


    2. Thus, in those placid waters, the Eskimo canoe becomes the ideal, most adequate milieu to explore the scenic splendor of its setting


    3. many researchers consider the “master hormones” in this milieu, which are


    4. way to get involved! Finding nothing else that could be done in the white-hot milieu that was the


    5. In our current social milieu, smaller is considered better for females only


    6. and what these trends mean in the context of the current masculinist social milieu, it is not unlike understanding any other fashion or trend


    7. in the world of human endeavor, and easing their entry into that milieu


    8. the rather tricky business of moving into another milieu


    9. ground the experiences of Split patients in a milieu that is


    10. He constantly and recurrently pesters those nearest and dearest to him in a bid to reassure himself that he is not losing his fame, his magic touch, the attention of his social milieu

    11. After all, it’s these reserved positions that enable them to hold their head high in the social milieu which had spurned them all along


    12. cultural milieu we live in; a milieu that is subtly beginning to fade


    13. The sea is the milieu of symbiosis


    14. Apathy is a dissociative will exampled by resignation, indifference, a chosen unreflective, even knowningly self-hypocritical surrender to the prevailing norms, the givens of one’s cultural milieu, in an act of capitulating malaise


    15. The ambience, or milieu, is of considerable importance in such an establishment, both in the selection of a decor and of a staff


    16. of status quoism that the social milieu around him would often slap on his face


    17. when he undertook to improve his milieu, the amelioration would systematically be reflected


    18. of art to experience would be to simply trust serendipity, and the intelligence of one's milieu


    19. global benchmark but then, the mood and work milieu in the newsroom worsened


    20. approach of everyone for themselves, the more its partisans impoverish their milieu as they

    21. help themselves rather than helping one another, the less their milieu can afford to support


    22. them, and the more cooperation with their milieu becomes a necessity, manifestly defeating


    23. in how one relates to their milieu and in what they gain from the interactions, individualism


    24. milieu of the suburbs, and this extraneous feeling surprised him a


    25. There was never a lack of girls in our milieu but the mores of the society where we belonged precluded the easy social intercourse of today


    26. I suggested that perhaps it would be less lonely with me sitting next to her in her drives and she smiled and our illicit nighttime promenades commenced, both of us hiding the fact from our families and our milieu and accepting the relationship as a partial deliverance from loneliness with no past and no future


    27. The chasm between us was too great, their lives too poverty-stricken, their education absent, their upbringing religious and fanatic, their milieu steeped in 98


    28. The absence of a father, the strong, domineering, businesswoman mother and our preoccupation with beauty and femininity in a milieu of giggling, gossiping women was bound to divert my normal sexual orientation


    29. It is instantaneous when you are expecting someone or if he is in your everyday milieu


    30. But the right circumstances were not easy to come by in the confined milieu of his social circle in Cairo

    31. On top of everything, he was very attractive, you must admit, and worked in a milieu abounding with nubile young women brought up in the uninhibited sexual ethics of out times


    32. Moreover, he did not feel ready to embark on a new emotional attachment despite the opportunities available in the university milieu


    33. He had started exhibiting that trait as soon as he made some money and of course, he was in a milieu where the opportunities abounded


    34. In any case, in Egypt, he set about creating for himself a milieu of comparable independence


    35. She was happy because she loved books and liked the milieu of young people


    36. and out of her familiar milieu, as I was in many ways, and because of that I made the effort, in the merry-go-round atmosphere at the beach, to talk to her in my disjointed and awkward manner


    37. Man in his milieu is a happy thing


    38. Perhaps, it's just that all the paper and milieu of books have dimmed his or her view of making the purchase


    39. But in the Action Office, that Darwinian milieu of gristle and blood and genital metaphor, there’d been a certain contempt for theory anyway


    40. He became aware of his new milieu only at dusk, as they were sailing past the hamlet of Calamar, when he went to the stern to urinate and saw, through the opening in the toilet, the gigantic paddle wheel turning under his feet with a volcanic display of foam and steam

    41. It was true: that beautiful, intelligent woman, with a human sensibility not at all common in her milieu, had been the soul and body of her social paradise for almost forty years


    42. For this was the time of their greatest victories over the subterranean hostility of a milieu that resisted accepting them as they were: different and modern, and for that reason transgressors against the traditional order


    43. Juvenal Urbino had observed this throughout his marriage, in particular at the beginning, when she was the parvenu in a milieu that had been prejudiced against her for three hundred years, and yet she had made her way through coral reefs as sharp as knives, not colliding with anyone, with a power over the world that could only be a supernatural instinct


    44. I had the more frequent recourse to champagne in that I constantly felt depressed and bored, owing to the fact that I was living in the most bourgeois commercial milieu imaginable—a milieu wherein every sou was counted and grudged


    45. Geographically they were all transferred a distance of five thousand versts, into an entirely different, strange milieu, but morally they were that evening still at home, just such as the peculiar, long, solitary family life had made them to be


    46. In Une Vie the fundamental thought is the perplexity in the presence of the cruel senselessness of the agonizing life of a beautiful woman, who is ruined by the gross sensuality of a man; here it is not only the perplexity, but also the indignation of the author at the sight of the welfare and success of a gross sensuous beast, who by his very sensuality makes a career for himself and attains a high position in the world, an indignation also at the sight of the corruption of that milieu in which the hero attains his success


    47. And so, with the exception of the first two, or, speaking strictly, of the one first novel, all of Maupassant's novels, as novels, are weak; and if Maupassant had left us only his novels, he would be a striking example of how a brilliant gift may perish in consequence of that false milieu in which it was evolved, and of those false theories of art which are invented by men who do not love it and so do not understand it


    48. SEVERAL times in the course of this narrative I have hinted at an idea corresponding to the above French heading, and now feel it incumbent upon me to devote a whole chapter to that idea, which was one of the most ruinous, lying notions which ever became engrafted upon my life by my upbringing and social milieu


    49. If he was a Maronite, he must have had ties to the likely Origenist milieu of the monastery of Mar Maron in western Syria


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    Synonyms for "milieu"

    milieu surroundings environment habitat medium

    "milieu" definitions

    the environmental condition