juste milieu
Example Sentences
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I will cling with tenacity to that juste milieu under which we have hitherto so eminently prospered.
From The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
This disputatio in utramque partem—this debate for and against—is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
She and Clarendon are so totally opposite, that it is quite absurd, and I only believe the juste milieu....
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount
His only trouble now, in the dull and lazy times of the juste milieu, is drowsiness.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
