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  • "I can "be" anywhere the overlapping dataspheres allow me to travel...all of the Web worlds, of course, datumplane, and any of the TechnoCore constructs such as Old Earth...but it's only within that milieu that I can claim "consciousness" or operate sensors or remotes such as this cybrid."†  (source)
  • Knowing a little something about the social and political milieu out of which a writer creates can only help us understand her work, not because that milieu controls her thinking but because that is the world she engages when she sits down to write.†  (source)
  • Too, he was on his way to becoming a legal expert, remaining in the milieu of the university, piling one degree upon another while teaching at the graduate level until the sheer depth of his expertise in specific areas was incontestable.†  (source)
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  • Whatever wounds she had, she "Not your usual milieu, Roarke."†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • The vast expanses of spongy sphagnum bog provided an ideal milieu for several species of small rodents who could burrow and nest-build to their hearts' content in the ready-made mattress of moss.†  (source)
  • A small, elegant woman walking across the local golf course when her children were too young to play alone, diligently trying to make sense of American sports so she could understand her children's milieu.†  (source)
  • He looked upon himself and his milieu as doomed.†  (source)
  • It was true that I had visited the welcoming house a few times since being stationed in Singapore, but I wasn't enamored of the milieu, the transactional circumstances and such.†  (source)
  • But in the committed, engaged milieu of the Institute, my decision not to enter the military was looked upon with alarm by both cadets and the administration.†  (source)
  • After all, you have been in your milieu all day.†  (source)
  • 'You haven't the experience,' she continued, 'you don't know that milieu.†  (source)
  • So I can imagine him, the way he did it: the way in which he took the innocent and negative plate of Henry's provincial soul and intellect and exposed it by slow degrees to this esoteric milieu, building gradually toward the picture which he desired it to retain, accept.†  (source)
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