This is particularly true because in freshman dormitories it is something of an imperative to present yourself as poised and confident, even if you are in fact bilious, angst-ridden and actively decompensating.
As I'm sure we all remember, from the very outset of his pursuit of the presidency, Donald Trump presented himself as poised to become the greatest ever -- the "greatest jobs president that God ever created," the greatest builder of a border wall ("nobody builds walls better than me,"), the greatest negotiator of new trade agreements, and so on.
"Beauty has always been depicted as poised, demure.
Early advocates depicted P2P lending as poised to fundamentally transform multiple dimensions of the lending process.
Construing cognition in this context portrays learners as poised to incorporate sensorimotor information.
The repressed status, often referred to as poised, is conferred by epigenetic modifications established at loci encoding developmental regulators.
Always portray yourself as poised, confident, calm, and happy.
2. "For fall, Bottega Veneta presents a collection poised between restraint and exuberance.
Methods such as those presented here are poised to facilitate the thorough examination of DNA methylation patterns genome-wide in health and disease.
His trio, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums, sounds as exquisitely poised as ever.
We formed a semicircle, as if poised to catch him.
