Sentence examples for too poised from inspiring English sources

Don't even start: the simple truth is that Serena was too focused, too poised, too good.

Hingis was too versatile and too poised for the unseeded Rubin in their quarterfinal, winning, 6-1, 6-3.

And the Rams are too poised in big games to lose enough of those matchups to hurt.

The polls afford little clue to the contradiction, but she may be resented for being too poised, too perfect, too self-righteous, too forgiving, even - the wife who has fixed her hair and manicure and is in the hammock reading Foreign Affairs while you're still wrestling with the kids' breakfast.

De Waal has inherited 264 Japanese netsuke – wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none larger than the palm of his hand – from his beloved great uncle Iggie, and though they're a relatively recent arrival at his London home, already he fears their story is growing too "poised".

He, too, was poised at the ready, back in the ring, deep in the struggle.

Democratic officials were just as surprised by the court's ruling, and they, too, were poised for political warfare.

"Macbeth" has had a decent run outside the Jacobean court, and "Hamilton," too, looks poised to thrive through future administrations.

Like her sister in Italy, she, too, is poised atop a seashell, gliding along a gorgeous ocean.

Having gone through religious outbursts after their emergence from Communism, they too seem poised to pivot in a secular direction.

His texts, based on a story from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," were brilliant and witty, but his delivery was too ironically poised to be convincing.