juste milieu
Example Sentences
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Besides, would it not be safer, wiser, to modify ideas by experience, to look abroad for patterns, to seek for an equilibrium, a juste milieu?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 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
The system of the juste milieu means little more than to profess one thing and to do another; it is a stupendous fraud, and sooner or later will be so viewed and appropriately rewarded.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
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
