How to Use demimonde in a Sentence
demimonde
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In its day, Cristina’s work was very much a product of its demimonde.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
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Weegee, the New York photographer famous for his shots of crime scenes and the city’s rarely photographed demimonde.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2022
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The film’s strength is its dizzyingly affecting portrait of a deeply distressed life in the demimonde.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
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Leviss joined the Vanderpump demimonde in season 5 as Kennedy’s new girlfriend.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
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Truth be told, the list of collaborators doubles as a who’s who of New York's creative demimonde.
—Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 2 May 2019
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Some are John’s friends, recruited from the downtown demimonde that inspired his idea for Shortbus; some have never met him.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
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Finger and Weber talk for an hour or so, spelunking deep into the demimonde with convivial delight.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
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Tango, a style of music as well as dance, had stories to tell besides those of the Buenos Aires demimonde: love stories, stories of social action.
—Washington Post, 15 June 2021
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As an author, essayist and historian of the urban demimonde, Lucy Sante is a cultural rover of the old school.
—Marc Weingarten, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
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The movie’s a character study of a scene, the Soviet rock demimonde of the early 1980s, with characters based on real people and a deep sense of inside baseball.
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
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Tokyo Vice adapts the memoir of a U.S. journalist who covered the Japanese capital’s criminal demimonde in the late 1990s.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Apr. 2022
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The job lasted six months, but his fascination with the demimonde on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street persisted.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
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Runyon’s sense of the racing demimonde, though, promises deeper pleasures on offer.
—Max Watman, WSJ, 28 May 2021
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The audience is welcomed into the scarlet (for passion) demimonde of Parisian’s legendarily scandalous nightclub: The signature windmill spins in the balcony, on the left, and the mascot elephant sits on the right.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
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These people now have to exist in a demimonde of informal work, welfare, and other handouts such as SSDI, without the dignity and security of work.
—Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
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But nobody in particular can be identified except some members of the scroungy New Orleans-Dallas-Galveston demimonde.
—Avi Selk, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
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Vincent’s bar is home base for a vast demimonde ensemble: mobsters, cops, pimps, pornographers, construction workers, streetwalkers and the post-Stonewall gay community.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
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In both cases, that means a larger brass section and a chance to really hear the sometimes tense dialogue between strings reflecting soaring romantic aspirations and the brassy, Runyonesque undertow of Nathan’s demimonde.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2017
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In between Shanghai was a sprawling, hyperenergetic demimonde of opium dens, gambling casinos, and illicit dance halls.
—Monitor Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2018
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Shawishes are the primary brokers between the demimonde of refugees and the aid workers, municipal officials, employers, security agents, and journalists who interact with them.
—Alexander Dziadosz, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
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Eventually, these stories expanded beyond the courtesans to encompass an entire hidden cat world, including kabuki actors, artists, comedians, and other demimonde.
—Zack Davisson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
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