And at her best, she is able to perform this in reverse – containing limitless canyons, plains and skies in her poised and carefully delineated folds and structures.
Swift turns, deft curvilinear arms and rapidly reconfiguring tableaus share time with deep, satisfying pliés and carefully poised relevés.
They know how to do spendy urban brasseries; how to create a reassuring space where you drop more money than you know is reasonable, on carefully poised comfort food.
It was a bad decision psychologically, since it implied that Anderson's delusions were based in reality, undercutting the carefully poised ambiguities of what was now the final act.
More disciplined work in competition for the Golden Leopard includes "La maison jaune", a family tragedy directed by an Algerian, Amor Hakkar, and "Contre toute espérance" ("Summit Circle" in English), a haunting, carefully poised film about a woman caring for her stroke-damaged husband, directed by a Canadian, Bernard Émond.
Their conversation is carefully poised on the boundary between facetiousness and sincerity, and they do things like turn unlikely words into adjectives by adding the letter Y (Burt wants a "Huck Finn-y" life for their baby) and pretend to argue about the difference between cobbling and whittling.
Two highly respected stage veterans are also in contention: Stockard Channing, as the poised Palm Springs matriarch whose carefully manicured life comes unhinged in "Other Desert Cities," and the ever-wonderful Cynthia Nixon as the dying literary critic in the revival of "Wit".
"It does cause a lot of images from two years ago to come back, and a lot of thoughts that you thought you had gone past," she said carefully, outwardly poised during an interview while the fingers of her hands, clasped behind her back, worked furiously.
In June 2014, poised to accept Google's carefully crafted third offer to settle the dispute, his team began writing to complainants to say he had rejected their claims.
Elegant, poised and disciplined, Ms. Love hews carefully to a series of catchphrases and slogans to anchor her campaign stops.
