But she lacks coloratura dexterity, and her solo turns were self-consciously poised, bordering on smug.
The T-cell repertoire that is developed on the individual's self-peptides and self-MHC is poised for autoreactivity, but remains quiescent until triggered.
She seems a poised, self-contained individual, but tells us that while she is writing she frightens her friends by becoming a raging monster.
(Witness the storm of outrage when the writer Ayelet Waldman confessed, in a 2005 essay and later on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," to loving her husband more than her children.) Poised self-consciously between art and entertainment, "Joshua" offers imaginative staging and some superb performances.
The home-school approach has been known to instill discipline, self-reliance and poised interaction with adults--the very assets needed by any successful young entrepreneur.
She had a sparkle in her eye and a strong sense of self and was always poised, though sometimes playful.
And while he's a winner, poised and self-possessed, he's also a broken man, apparently closed to intimate relationships, reliant on "self-medication".
She seemed poised and self-possessed, though it was possible, also, that she was weeping.
Poised, occasionally self-conscious, Win was "never nerdy," his mother emphasized, yet always driven.
The corners of his mouth sloped downward, in an expression poised between self-mockery and disgust at the world.
Figes gives him the following self-satisfied thought, perfectly poised between pompous attempts to describe and to prescribe: "Things are, and ought to be, simple".
