milieu

This plea stands in stark contrast to our authoritarian milieu in the United States, which is defined by active contempt for the weak.

It uncannily turns a specific milieu — Jewish strivers of New Jersey in the second half of the 20th century — into something universal.

This is an ideal milieu for a president who cares not for facts or truth but only about his own vanity and glory.

In his lawless milieu, the only authority that people feared was the Aryan Brotherhood, Field testified.

The totalitarian subject thrives in a milieu of manufactured crises and engineered divisions, where cruelty becomes virtue and the lust for domination is mistaken for strength.