juste milieu

Example Sentences

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With reference to the waist, as to every thing else, the juste milieu is literally the thing to be desired.

From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia

And the mode of thinking thus designated is already manifesting its importance by one of the most unequivocal signs, the appearance of thinkers who attempt a compromise or juste milieu between it and its opposite.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart

I will cling with tenacity to that juste milieu under which we have hitherto so eminently prospered.

From The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

Four applicants were incontinently rejected for manifesting a natural inaptitude at hitting the juste milieu, in this important part of the duty of a cabin-boy.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore