Sentence examples for exceptionally poised from inspiring English sources

His only good memories, it seems, are of a true love, a Vietnamese girl, Zung (the exceptionally poised and centered Nadia Gan), who frightens Ozzie and his wife, Harriet (a somewhat desperate and uncomprehending Holly Hunter).

Scarfless in a sleek matching grey suit, she looked exceptionally poised and alert at a time when the precariousness of the global economy was once again threatening to undermine her authority.

Sugar, after all, seems as out of place in her depraved surroundings as little Oliver Twist: effortlessly poised, exceptionally well-read, and, as played by everyone's favourite English rose Romola Garai, preternaturally fresh-faced.

With its publication, Marechera, the exceptionally gifted enfant terrible of Zimbabwean letters, seemed poised for a glittering career.

Coupling these advances with the in vitro advantages of creating exceptionally large libraries and precisely controlling all experimental conditions, cell-free directed evolution is poised to contribute significantly to our understanding and engineering of more complex protein phenotypes.

But poised for what?

He's poised.

"He was poised.

Poised between revolutions?

Finely poised.

Intriguingly poised.