Sentence examples for poised about from inspiring English sources

I waited and waited, but I was remarkably poised about the whole thing.

Michigan wide receiver Roy Roundtree said that on the sideline Robinson "was trying to stay in the game; he said he was calm and he was poised about it, but it's a team thing".

By 1950 Humphrey Bogart was in that phase in his career when he seemed to wear bow ties in most of his movies, still exuding the confident masculinity that epitomized his best work in the 30's and 40's, but beginning to edge toward the scowling and the jowly -- poised about midway between Sam Spade and Captain Queeg.

Zondervan was also poised to donate about $150,000 for the production.

Proponents call it "cleanweb," and they say the sector is poised to bring about huge leaps in efficiency, saving money and cutting planet-warming carbon emissions.

It turns out that without her boisterous Kardashian daughters, Ms. Jenner is poised, pleasant and about as exciting as a Sunday afternoon nap.

One offshoot of the current social and economic crisis is an Irish feminist renaissance, with dynamic new activist movements poised to bring about social change.

Mr. Parkin thinks he is poised to bring about another breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred.

ROME — With signs reading "Enough!" and "We want a country that respects women," thousands took to the streets across Italy on Sunday in coordinated demonstrations against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but their outpouring of frustration did not look poised to bring about political change.

What seems especially silly about Milbank's take, is that he seems perfectly unaware that, if the Conrad/Gregg proposal goes down in the Senate, President Barack Obama is poised to bring about this bizarre commission via executive order.

At 4 feet 11 inches and 70 pounds, she is poised, candid about the sacrifices required and frank about her own ambivalence toward a sport that can make enormous demands on a skater's time, body and family pocketbook.