juste milieu

Example Sentences

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They, in truth, form between them the genuine juste-milieu on which the present government is balanced.

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

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

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

One is a republican, another Saint-Simonian; this one aristocrat, that one Catholic, others juste-milieu, middle ages, or German, as they choose for their purpose.

From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott