juste milieu

Example Sentences

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There was not much juste milieu about Huxley.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot

In stirrups, as in most other things, there is a juste milieu; and if the American dragoon is on one side of that, so is the Arab of the Desert on the other.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Her juste milieu, if a trifle becalmed, amounts to genius; and I was—and still am—more interested in her moral, social and intellectual opinions than in most of my friends'.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot

When the subject was disposed of, the writer asked his friend the object of these unusual investigations, and was told that they were for the use of a leading Deputy, who was thoroughly juste milieu.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

Now it was precisely in attempting the juste milieu between these extremes that our prophetical speculators wrecked themselves.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry