juste milieu
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Never was the juste milieu suggested with such hopeless diffidence.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
His political position in the juste milieu is unexciting.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
