juste milieu

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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

His only trouble now, in the dull and lazy times of the juste milieu, is drowsiness.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

There was not much juste milieu about Huxley.

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