juste milieu

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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

He is the juste milieu of the day, and, biding his time, he offers to his contingent supporters “chameleon’s diet—eating the air promise-crammed.’

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

There was not much juste milieu about Huxley.

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

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

As an attempt to prove that the juste milieu met with popular approbations I think the experiment was a failure.

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