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The phrase "a calculated display" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or presentation that is intentionally designed or planned to achieve a specific effect or impression.
Example: "The politician's speech was a calculated display of confidence meant to sway public opinion in his favor."
Alternatives: "a deliberate show" or "a measured exhibition."
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But to Martin it felt like a calculated display.
The UK government gives its tacit support to all of this, with a calculated display of rhetorical hand-wringing.
In a calculated display of humility, David Viniar, Goldman's chief financial officer, recently told Business Week that the firm wasn't that smart.
"This is not a setup!" said Mr. Daniels, insisting that the grass cutting was not a calculated display of cheapness but an authentic chore before he returns on Labor Day to Washington, where a $700 billion-plus budget fight and furious members of Congress await him.
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Elizabeth had a rare gift for combining calculated displays of intransigence with equally calculated displays of graciousness and, on rare occasions, a prudent willingness to concede.
His calculated displays of rashness included invading Cambodia, making a jaw-dropping opening to China and initiating the "Christmas bombing" of Hanoi in late 1972.
"There is a difference between spontaneous and/or good-natured displays of enthusiasm and calculated displays of obnoxious self-indulgence," he said.
In his palatial penthouse office overlooking Tower Bridge, staffed by a butler, the magnate brings to mind Augustus Melmotte from Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now – a magnificent fictional creation, in every sense, who rises from humble origins to deceive and dazzle London with calculated displays of wealth and power.
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This gene encodes a mature protein of 466 aa with a calculated molecular mass of 51.94 kDa, displaying 29-38% amino acid sequence identity to a few characterized bacterial CtpA enzymes.
The bioHx gene encodes a protein of 259 aa with a calculated molecular mass of 28.60 kDa, displaying 24-39% amino acid sequence identity to a few characterized bacterial BioH enzymes.
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