Sentence examples for a poised performance. from inspiring English sources

It is a poised performance.

It was emblematic of a poised performance by the Rangers.

But Joubert had to settle for a silver medal Thursday night despite a poised performance that featured two quads and six triples to music from soundtrack of "The Matrix".

In the past few weeks, as Bush has seen his presidential ambitions slip, Clinton has watched her own rise – buoyed by a strong debate showing, a poised performance during the congressional hearing on Benghazi and vice-president Joe Biden's decision not to enter the race.

Musgrave, who completed 16 of 24 passes for 175 yards, turned in a poised performance in his first collegiate appearance as he completed clutch third-down passes on both of Oregon's scoring drives.

Patrick Summers conducted a poised performance from the harpsichord.

Rosamund Pike delivers a fascinatingly poised performance as the gone girl herself – the missing piece in a jigsaw of fear, but a character whose potency exponentially steps upward.

Only in Mozart's Symphony No 29, the last item on an easy-listening programme, did he appear solely as conductor: a clean, poised performance, but lacking the electricity Vengerov generates with solo playing.

The Algerians also had a surprisingly poised performance from the young goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi, who had never started an international game for his country.

And in the final "Im Abendrot," Miss Arroyo modulated her voice sensitively for a perfectly poised performance that cap tured its autumnal atmosphere unforgettably.

She is the simple girl whose steely-eyed mama (a shrewd, poised performance from Charlotte Rampling) pairs her off with the fabulously wealthy and powerful Duke of Devonshire, played with a kind of clenched glumness by Ralph Fiennes.