Sentence examples for playing a poised from inspiring English sources

And he turns Diaz, playing a poised and serious person with a playful streak, into a caricature with a frozen smile and a flustery manner.

St. John's overpowered Alabama-Birmingham inside and played a poised final minutes to reach Tuesday's semifinal against Texas Tech and Coach Bob Knight at Madison Square Garden.

In "Arbitrage," out this month, Marling plays a daughter poised to take over the teetering financial empire run by her father (Richard Gere).

Kanin and Gordon's script for The Marrying Kind (1952) was far darker, as Holliday and Aldo Ray played a couple poised on the brink of divorce.

He has made it clear he is prepared to return to support the Government in the vote, depending on the whips' calculations of the arithmetic – which was being decided late last night – but if he were to come back he would have to leave today, with negotiations in which he is playing a crucial part poised at a very delicate stage.

In the event the most riveting character is Charles I, played by Rupert Everett as a poised, slightly effete figure out of Wilde with a neat turn of phrase and a slight patrician stammer.

Once the dynamic interactions between the nucleosome and the basic transcriptional machinery began to be examined in further detail, it became increasingly evident that H2A.Z plays a role in poising genes for transcription where it helps to recruit RNA pol II to genes that need to be activated but is not in itself necessary for ongoing transcriptional activity [ 78].

Through interactions with transcription factors, SET-1 and JMJD-3.1 are recruited to promoters of neuronal genes during transdifferentiation. Here, SET-1 is thought to play a role in poising neuronal genes for activation and JMJD-3.1 to subsequently remove repressive H3K27me to drive gene activation and efficient transdifferentiation.

In the past decade or so, Jones, now fifty-seven, has played a number of mothers poised on a precipice, who keep themselves from falling by being indefatigable, if not indestructible.

Twelfth Night is Shakespeare's great turn-of-the-year play, a play poised between hope and despair, courage and calamity, where the scene may turn sweet or sour according, not to the deliberations of the gods or the fickleness of fate, but to the behaviors of "kind" and "unkind" individual people struggling to make their way in life and love.

Bassett, who transferred to Ohio via Indiana and Alabama-Birmingham, played with a poise that belied the program's midmajor level.