juste milieu

Example Sentences

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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

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

Now it was precisely in attempting the juste milieu between these extremes that our prophetical speculators wrecked themselves.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

His political position in the juste milieu is unexciting.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

This last is a juste milieu view by no means in favour with the inhabitants of either place.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir