juste milieu
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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
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)
If you put too much cream, you will make the tea cold,—if you put too much sugar, you will make it syrupy,—you must arrive at the juste milieu in a cup of tea!
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
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
Because," said Cibber, peevishly, "you all want the true savoir faire nowadays, because there is no juste milieu, young gentlemen.
From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles
