Sentence examples for poised slightly from inspiring English sources

The birds poised slightly apart seem to be talking into emptiness, as if neither was paying the slightest attention to its companion.

Reed slim and showing few signs of age, Ms. Vega cuts almost exactly the same figure at 50 — that of a poised, slightly diffident, slightly aloof bohemian waif exuding an innate regality — that she did at 25.

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.

Your right/left arm should be poised slightly lower for attack, so that any fist aimed at your face will be blocked by your defending arm and then you can punch in the gap at the attacker.

Looking poised but slightly tense, Mr. Hu pledged continuity with the policies of Jiang Zemin, whose drive to broaden the party and overhaul the economy while keeping a tight lid on politics were endorsed by the just-ended 16th Party Congress.

It will remain dormant unless the president and Parliament agree on an extension.As a result of this nationalist backlash, the Haitian government is poised to enjoy slightly more formal control over the country's affairs than it has in recent years (although foreign donors are still in charge of the purse strings).

Bell's character is described a beautiful privileged woman who "was raised by her grandmother to be poised, graceful, and slightly aloof, while her father has ingrained in her a distrust of the larger world".

She played with great poise, turning slightly toward the orchestra with a chamber musician's attention to the interplay of melodic lines and the expressive color of each harmony.

Long limbed and boyishly slim, with a gravity-defying shock of strawberry-blond hair, he is poised and charming, but retains the slightly reluctant demeanor of someone who might dodge an embarrassing hug and moan "Mo-o-om".

The lesson to learn is that letting Iran keep its current program, slightly reconfigured so it is not poised to make a weapons quickly, and subject to a rigorous transparency regime, is a better way forward.

Just when median home prices in the core Orlando market seemed poised to break the $200,000 mark, they slipped slightly in April.