Sentence:  The unmistakable directness and violence of Jesus' action shows it to have been undertaken and executed precisely as if the <WSD>milieu</WSD> were indeed not there to be counted. Here again is the character of action taken in the very face of the <WSD>milieu</WSD> without taking any notice of it. In any event, the one certainty is that the Roman <WSD>milieu</WSD>, so entirely ignored by his teaching, here came conclusively to touch upon it, putting Jesus to an end. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Social setting or environment.