Sentence examples for a poised wit from inspiring English sources

He then proceeds with a poised wit to demonstrate his manipulative gifts by bending a client to his will while extracting the information he needs to steal a valuable lithograph of Edvard Munch's The Brooch.

[want and wit.] A fool; an idiot.

Mays is a poised speaker.

Bruder is a poised and graceful writer.

Patrick Summers conducted a poised performance from the harpsichord.

But for a brief Moment, a poised minute,.

"It was a poised, big-time type of play".

Michael Kepler Meo, a poised boy soprano, was an outstanding Yniold; Maria Zifchak, a dignified Geneviève.

Eloquent in its melancholy, Mr. Jones's work made a striking impact in a poised, intense account.

A frieze of posing men is less successful, but Melissa Hamilton makes a poised, darting goddess.

McGahee's replacement, Ricky Williams, is a poised veteran but not a beast in blocking.