How to Use demimonde in a Sentence

demimonde

noun

• In its day, Cristina’s work was very much a product of its demimonde.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
• 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
• The film’s strength is its dizzyingly affecting portrait of a deeply distressed life in the demimonde.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Leviss joined the Vanderpump demimonde in season 5 as Kennedy’s new girlfriend.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Runyon’s sense of the racing demimonde, though, promises deeper pleasures on offer.
  — Max Watman, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024