Definition of juste milieu in English:
juste milieu
noun ʒystə miljøˌʒuːst mɪˈljəːˌZHo͞ost milˈyə
The happy medium; judicious moderation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Acceptable forms of female heroism, it would seem, fell in between these two extremes, somewhere in the ever elusive juste milieu.
- The former found in Romanticism a language that gave nationalism a new mystical and populist force, while moderates looked instead to the juste milieu embodied by the July Monarchy in France.
- Because I seek solace in music, god knows, ever since the blessings of non-intervention and the juste milieu!
- In the political sphere, before 1848 the majority favoured the juste milieu of a constitutional monarchy and some form of restricted suffrage.
- Tocqueville's rhetorical adversaries in that chapter were the nervous liberals of the juste milieu in France who feared that extending democratic rights would endanger social stability.
Origin
French, literally 'correct mean'.