Mr. Guy was a perpetual trickster: stoking a big crescendo topped with a shout, then slyly crooning the next line, switching from rage to leer to amusement, scrabbling wildly at his guitar on the way to a perfectly poised closing phrase.
Velázquez's equestrian groups have a balance and poise closer to Titian's than to Rubens's Baroque compositions, and after his return from Italy, he achieved a three-dimensional effect without detailed drawing or strong contrasts of light and shade but with a broad technique of brushwork and natural outdoor lighting.
Boston looked poised to close out this series from the get-go.
Could China at last be poised to close the sex gap?
In 2011, when a number of California state parks were poised to close, philanthropists picked up the tab.
Now the Affordable Care Act is poised to close that loophole by applying the same antidiscrimination rules for self-funded plans to insured plans.
Indeed, Italy, whose once-tainted Parmalat returned to the stockmarket last week, is another underperformer.Are America's shares now poised to close the gap?
North Korea seems poised to close Yongbyon at some point this month as six-party talks, aimed at stripping Kim Jong Il of his bomb-making capabilities in return for aid and a normalisation of relations, are scheduled to recommence.
But that information void is also poised to close, as inexpensive, standards-based technologies create a "smart" power grid that the companies — and consumers — can use to monitor home usage.
But just when Iverson's image seemed headed for a beating, just when the defending Eastern Conference champion 76ers seemed poised to close eight months of work in failure, Iverson, the league's reigning most valuable player, regained the form that made him the darling of last year's playoffs.
