juste milieu

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We are in the age of the juste-milieu; and this is appropriate enough.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by Chambers, William

If impartiality consisted in always steering in the juste-milieu, M. Gerusez would be the most impartial of historians.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

And Vital showed them a hat of a form and design which was truly expressive of the juste-milieu.

From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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

Charles Dix," says a legitimate in principle, 243 but a juste-milieu man in practice,—"Charles Dix has abdicated the throne, which otherwise must unquestionably be his by indefeasible right.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton