juste milieu

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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

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

One's toilet must be a delicate compromise between ball attire and full visiting dress, but Mademoiselle Melanie has hit the juste milieu; and succeeded in carrying me through all the perils of Scylla and Charybdis.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

His political position in the juste milieu is unexciting.

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

The juste milieu of brandy, so favored in 1832, if we can believe Mr. Hamilton, was not thought of in 1857.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various