The word "equipoise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a state of equilibrium or balance between two equal and opposite forces, attitudes, or entities. For example: "The two sides had to find a way to bring equipoise to their situation."
When confronted with a choice between two treatment pathways in equipoise – one that earns the doctor no money and the other with a fat fee attached – that conflict is stark.
He could fearlessly go giant-sized, offering to make a piece three city blocks long for Park Avenue in New York; or small, in his hundreds of "table pieces", in which delicate assemblages of metal hung in perilous equipoise over a right-angled edge.
It's a brilliantly written episode of queasy equipoise.
One reason for the endurance of George Stevens's film, from 1953, is the supreme equipoise that it finds between two contending impulses — the will to wander, moving restlessly through a desert land, versus the urge to take root, battling for your right to settle down and defying those who would snatch it away.
In his luminous portrait, dignity and destructiveness find a perfect equipoise.
Indeed, there is something of an infielder's grounded equipoise about her, however dissimulated by the voluminous suits she wears by the designer Zoran.
Farmiga seems to have command of her own recklessness; that should be an oxymoron, yet she makes it a matter of equipoise, carefully probing, and then pushing, the limits of her nerve.
Osvaldo Golijov: "Oceana" (DG) — "Oceana," a cantata based on sensuous texts by Pablo Neruda, is a work of true seriousness and equipoise from a sometimes showy composer; his inspired advocates in this and other pieces include the bossa-nova princess Luciana Souza, the soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the conductor Robert Spano.
But since that common goal has been achieved, with their entry into the White House, the equipoise has shifted, and what, one wonders, is Hillary's goal now?
And he has come up with an equivalent to DeLillo's curt and cool equipoise — a style of filmmaking that is classically measured and calm, without an extra shot or cut.
Depp, with his elegant trimmed beard and his mellifluous equipoise, is just a suave ghost in the machine.
