juste milieu
/ˌʒuːst mɪˈljəː
/ /ʒystə miljø/noun
The happy medium; judicious moderation.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....
- 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.
- Because I seek solace in music, god knows, ever since the blessings of non-intervention and the juste milieu!
Origin
French, literally 'correct mean'.
- oneirocrisy
- oneirocritic
- oneirocritical
- oneirocriticism
- oneirocritics
- oneirodynia
- oneirologist
- oneirology
- oneiromancer
- oneiromancy
- oneiropolist
- oneiroscopist
- oneiroscopy
- oneism
- one jump ahead
- one-legged
- one-liner
- one-lunger
- one-man
- one-man band
- one-man operated
- one-man show
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- one moment (or just a moment)
- one nation