juste milieu

Example Sentences

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Because," said Cibber, peevishly, "you all want the true savoir faire nowadays, because there is no juste milieu, young gentlemen.

From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles

This last is a juste milieu view by no means in favour with the inhabitants of either place.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Carlists looked distrustful, the republicans bold, and the juste milieu alarmed.

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

This disputatio in utramque partem—this debate for and against—is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)

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