Ms. Yanowsky, however, also produced a few bold images of intense frustration, revealing a strength in Marguerite that counterbalanced her passivity.
Her last two albums, released after her divorce from her former mentor, the Columbia Records chief Tommy Mottola, have counterbalanced her reputation for bland showroom-model anthems with a healthy dose of hip-hop.
Yet it was difficult to find the right developments for her middle years, to match and counterbalance her disaster-prone youth.
The idea that the territory was somehow dangerous for her, that she was courting failure or embarrassment, was enough of a motivator to counterbalance her greatest misgiving.
State Senator Diane Allen sought to counterbalance her positions against the death penalty and in favor of abortion rights by describing herself as a fiscal conservative.
Still reeling from the high-spending and better focused re-election campaign of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, four years ago, the independent expenditure group is taking early shots at Ms. Whitman in an effort to counterbalance her significant financial advantage over Mr. Brown.
Though never officially identified, the subject is thought to be his longtime muse, Dina Vierny Dina Vierny, in an oddly contorted pose, her right leg and arm twisted to counterbalance her head turned down in profile.
Lightning's final hair color and hairstyle were intended to reflect her femininity, and to counterbalance her athletic body.
Gone Carl Bildt and Radosław Sikorski, there are no heavy weights left in the General Affairs Council -- as the gathering of Foreign Ministers is called -- to counterbalance her.
Alice, who is expected to obey the rigid and often bewildering rules of her grandmother's house, must be more wary, but this burden is counterbalanced by her great-aunt Katie's kindnesses and by the solitary rambles through the glorious countryside, the tales of ghosts in the kitchen and the companionship of Jock the dog.
In the ensuing love story, Hazzard's moral refinement occasionally veers toward preciosity, but such lapses are counterbalanced by her bracing conviction that we either build or destroy the world we want to live in with our every word and gesture.
