"perpetually balanced" is a valid phrase in written English
It is commonly used as an adjective to describe two opposing forces that maintain a consistently stable equilibrium. For example, "The market is perpetually balanced between supply and demand."
The real engine of the book is not plot, though, but language: McGuane's sentences are like no one else's, crisp and spare, yet somehow baroque, and he perpetually balances the picaresque against the sublime.
Zeus sentences Tantalus, a progenitor of the Greek general Agamemnon, to an eternity of hunger and thirst and a life perpetually threatened by a precariously balanced great boulder.
To know Ed Koch personally was to experience a merry-go-round of approval and disapproval that could leave you perpetually off balance (which may have been the idea).
Addressing the mercantilist belief that monetary intervention could cause a perpetually favourable balance of trade, Cantillon developed a specie-flow mechanism foreshadowing future international monetary equilibrium theories.
An event most often criticized for being self-indulgent and self-congratulatory — so over-long, repetitive and predictable that the host is all but required to joke about its absurdity — this year's Academy Awards was a strange compilation of atonal moments in which the audience was kept perpetually off-balance.
And until they achieve a successful piece of writing, their lives will be perpetually out of balance".
The intermissionless program continued with a commanding but eccentric traversal of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto by Evgeny Kissin, in which Gilbert and the orchestra, perpetually out of balance, strove to preserve the lyrical coherence of the first two movements while in sync with the Russian virtuoso's leaden tempos.
Paul Offit, a leading vaccine researcher and advocate, has also noted a tendency in the media to provide false balance by perpetually presenting both sides of an issue even when only one side is supported by the evidence and thereby giving a platform for the spread of misinformation.
The agency plans to hire additional officers, although it is not clear how many will be assigned to airports versus the border patrol — a balance that is perpetually subject to debate.
But Marr had spoken once of an "innate liberal bias" in the context of a long and thoughtful discourse on the BBC's perpetually self-critical striving for fairness and balance, unique in all the media.
