Choose the Right Synonym for milieu

background, setting, environment, milieu, mise-en-scène mean the place, time, and circumstances in which something occurs. background often refers to the circumstances or events that precede a phenomenon or development. the shocking decision was part of the background of the riots setting suggests looking at real-life situations in literary or dramatic terms. a militant reformer who was born into an unlikely social setting environment applies to all the external factors that have a formative influence on one's physical, mental, or moral development. the kind of environment that produces juvenile delinquents milieu applies especially to the physical and social surroundings of a person or group of persons. an intellectual milieu conducive to artistic experimentation mise-en-scène strongly suggests the use of properties to achieve a particular atmosphere or theatrical effect. a gothic thriller with a carefully crafted mise-en-scène

Examples of milieu in a Sentence

Theirs was a bohemian milieu in which people often played romantic musical chairs. — Edmund White, New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2009 People in France admire the United States, and much of what passes for anti-Americanism is limited to the intellectual milieu of Paris. — Jonathan Alter et al., Newsweek, 29 May 2000 She might stay home, might marry and live as a housewife. And if her milieu does not sanction such a solution, there are, she knows, milieux which do. — David Mamet, Jafsie and John Henry: Essays, 1999 Certainly there are very few American milieus today in which having read the latest work of Joyce Carol Oates or Richard Ford is more valuable, as social currency, than having caught the latest John Travolta movie or knowing how to navigate the Web. — Jonathan Franzen, Harper's, April 1996 They're caught in their own hazy milieu—working, smoking, talking, drinking. — Gerri Hirshey, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 1992 young, innovative artists thrive in the freewheeling milieu that a big city offers See More

Recent Examples on the Web The quaint residence quickly filled with an eclectic milieu of friends, designers, and family. — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022 These appetizers set the comic tone for the evening and revealed its 1960s milieu. — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2022 The decision to focus on a Black family suggests that the instinct to embed a hopeful future in the increasingly distant past is not limited to the milieu Linklater depicts. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 15 Apr. 2022 Epps’ production featured sets by John Iacovelli, who has once again been enlisted to bring the play’s 1930 Harlem milieu to life. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022 And that just became an interesting milieu for the movie to take place. — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022 What were your observations of what becoming a journalist has meant for these women within their culture and social milieu? — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022 This tropical Puerto Rican milieu hardly matched the north Georgia mountains in any realistic sense. — Rodney Ho, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022 The milieu was still Black L.A., but the aesthetic, pioneered by Melina Matsoukas, then a music-video director for Beyoncé and other artists, had been glammed up. — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 See More

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