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[Footnote 4: When the term juste milieu was first used by the King, and adopted by his followers, Lafayette said in the Chamber, that
A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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The power of words and le mot juste is conveyed very simply and eloquently by the gentleman who stopped to speak and by you in the telling.
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In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
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Still, French-speakers worldwide, including those in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and even in France and its territories, from New Caledonia to Guadeloupe, find that there are moments when the un-French deluxe is undeniably le mot juste.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Still, French-speakers worldwide, including those in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and even in France and its territories, from New Caledonia to Guadeloupe, find that there are moments when the un-French deluxe is undeniably le mot juste.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Je suis nouveau et viens tous juste de rejoindre ce forum.
Matthew Yglesias » White House Should Fill Open Federal Reserve Board Slots 2010
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Describing the Sons of Iraq and the Anbar Awakening, blogger Army of Dude coined the mot-juste "Enemies With Benefits" after returning from Iraq.
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The man next to me—caught in the middle of some urgent business missive—delays compliance while he searches for le mot juste to finalize his text message to some unseen correspondent.
Thoughts on Culture at the Boston Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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In a way, the object of parody here or is it homage? is Flaubert, the legendary practitioner of the mot juste , who sought the perfect adjectives to distinguish a given taxi driver from the others at Rouen Station.
A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011
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If your nickname is Wacko Jacko, if you have forked over tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits in which you were accused of child abuse, the term "icon" is probably not le mot juste.
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