Milieux

The whole milieux is a space opera version of the European Middle Ages, and many of the books are really just action narratives -- which are certainly fun to read, though a little shallow -- but some, such as Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies and the ongoing Horus Heresy series have a greater depth and a "future primitive" -- almost steampunk -- aesthetic that any fan of Gene Wolfe's New/Long/Short Sun series will love. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a departure from the milieux of worldly life – a “being set apart” for God. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But gay Harlem, nonetheless, showcased its inimitable style with rent parties, speakeasies, sex circuses, and buffet flats as places to engage in protected same-gender milieux. ❋ Irene Monroe (2011)

Given this basis to our evaluation of all architecture, and especially sacred architecture, it seems to me vital that we pay attention to the cultural and philosophical milieux which give rise to various forms of architecture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Valuable documents in that they show labouring-class self-educated men finding supportive networks, creating, in effect, literary circles beyond the usual middle-class milieux of university, coffee house and club, these letters do not, however, establish Bloomfield as an altogether willing mentor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the stories are set in varyingly 17th or 18th century milieux, with a heavy admixture of Hermetic magic. ❋ Nwhyte (2009)

The show's presentation thus got in the way of the art, in no place more than in the room where Hopper's best known work -- photographs from the 1960s documenting his friends and his milieux -- is shown stacked top to bottom, the bulk of the images more or less impossible to see. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In certain of his novels, the veteran German writer Günter Grass deploys a magical object or animal to serve as link or thread between diverse characters, scenes, social milieux, historical periods or even states of consciousness. ❋ James Buchan (2010)

Usually when historical figures or whole milieux are re-evaluated it is not because of new facts, but new perspectives on well established facts. ❋ Carla (2010)

There is indeed something labored about the novel, its characters, plot, milieux are all contructed with effort. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While hip-hop culture evolved out of the cultural and socio-economic milieux of mid-1970's South Bronx, the cultural practices ingrained in the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American values that spawned urban hip-hop culture all trace their lineage back to Africa. ❋ Modiba (2010)

In the current milieux it seems like there is a compartmentalization & specialization contrary to the spirit KK attributes to the Situationists and other european, notice art movements of the earlier generation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At 4000 words, "The Lick of Time" is too compact to tangle itself in its plot threads, although its references to other characters and milieux from Carroll's fiction do get it into minor trouble. ❋ Gregory Feeley (2009)

While I would agree with you in general that the construction of innovation as a mark of genius is a post-Romantic mania, it is important to remember that there were innovators, paradigm-shifters in all the arts who were specifically praised (and denigrated) as such in pre-Romantic milieux: Monteverdi providing the example closest to Beethoven's I think, in the profundity of his shift in idiom and means and its subsequent affect on musical discourse. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

This was especially the case in France and most Irish clerical students there associated with milieux hostile to the movement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of her narratives are sentimental tales with female heroines and with few exceptions they depict various Muslim milieux of the two decades preceding World War I. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What is more, I have passed my Texas life in two of the least Texan milieux—academe and Orthodox Judaism. ❋ Unknown (2009)