Sentence examples for performance poised from inspiring English sources

Miki Ando, once a great jumper, rises to the occasion, upsetting a rusty Kim Yu-na to win the women's gold medal with a mature performance poised between athleticism and artistry.

3. BALANCING ACT -- In June, using a strong cast and the topography of Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony presented Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" in a powerful concert performance poised between the musically abstract and the look of the theater.

Metastability is a movement system property that helps performers to remain in a state of relative coordination with their performance environments, poised between multiple co-existing states (stable and distinct movement patterns or responses).

I like the Royal in this work, and the opening cast has some fine performances: Steven McRae poised between freefall and classical control in the Melancholic variation, Edward Watson on the brink of fantastical archness in Sanguinic.

What Ms. Eisenstadt achieves are performances perfectly poised between naturalism and caricature, everyday monsters who are exaggerated enough to be funny but not so far out as to lose credibility.

The 31-year-old actor may be best known for playing Lincoln Lee on Fox's "Fringe" and the dysfunctional Jeremy Darling in ABC's gone-but-not-forgotten "Dirty Sexy Money," but his latest performances seem poised make you view the star in a whole new light.

It is a poised performance.

It was emblematic of a poised performance by the Rangers.

That last word also applied to his poised performance in Tallinn.

The fiery yet poised performance of Barber's overture on Wednesday suggested that balance issues had been remedied.

It gets a big laugh from the sold-out crowd, breathing some extemporised warmth into an otherwise artfully poised performance.