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the poised
noun
Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
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But Justin was done with the poised, humble good boy.
The Knicks find themselves as the poised and focused team.
(Like the poised Ms. Lambert the students tend to exude maturity beyond their years).
In the finale, Hough provides all the poised brilliance one could ask for.
In between scenes, the poised actors discuss interpretation of character, making connections to contemporary politicians and histories of performance.
The pictures are breathtakingly beautiful – splashy, vibrant watercolours, very different from the poised, witty woodcuts of the novels.
Colby was himself — the poised, cultured, assured, keen aristocrat and gentleman, with generations of "position" behind him.
And the poised and refined Lombard is certainly not the type to turn up for the opening of an envelope in a barely-there dress.
Fifty years later, Flora's Tory sister, Eleanor Swan (the poised Rosemary Harris), plays coy with a meddling biographer (Neal Huff), who senses an erotic backstory behind the painting.
Recently, though, I've been much impressed by the poised, super-elegant and calmly dazzling Vanessa Zahorian (San Francisco Ballet) and the luminously youthful Jillian Barrell (Ballet Arizona).
Add another five or six, and perhaps they will all turn out like the poised brood we see on Bravo, virtually raising themselves.
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