faute de mieux
| (French) for want of better. |
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| These patterns of nature are the not-so-hidden code of the iconic building, and perhaps they are so for want of anything more pressing, faute de mieux. Still, if the hypothetical costs of not acting are seen to be infinite, even the disastrous consequences of a preventive war may be seen as a case of faute de mieux. In Les ecoles historiques Thuillier, focusing exclusively on French history, concludes supporting, faute de mieux, a type of neo-positivism. |
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