middle ground

"I can't seem to reach any middle ground with him," she had said.

Indeed, I do not believe a man could have a friendship with her, for there is no middle ground.

In the great conflict of good and evil there is no middle ground.

Let us have a middle ground to start from, on which all parties can meet, as in the other case.

Meantime he remitted no effort to find some middle ground of conciliation.

There was a middle ground, but the perplexed whites could not find it.

It was life and life, death and death; there was no middle ground, no compromise.

It was a favorite hunting-ground, or middle ground of the Indians.

To whatever they apply as qualities, they leave no middle ground.

Their difference is such as to admit of no compromise; no middle ground is possible.