juste milieu

With reference to the waist, as to every thing else, the juste milieu is literally the thing to be desired.

From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield

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 James Fenimore Cooper

Last year a noble address was delivered by R. W. Emerson, in which he broadly showed the juste milieu views upon this subject in the holy light of a high ideal day.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

Never was the juste milieu suggested with such hopeless diffidence.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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 James Fenimore Cooper