Sentence examples for was poised between from inspiring English sources

In the moments before the second impact, everyone in the 78th floor sky lobby was poised between going up or down.

Then higher up, where the brushstrokes are looser and more fragile, comes the sense of a weakening air current, as if the glider was poised between rising and falling.

Mark Ford says that while Some Trees was poised between an avant-garde taking apart of poetry and an allegiance to the likes of Auden, the cut-up and collage techniques in The Tennis Court Oath were just about taking apart.

Saying that Europe was poised between "hope and fear" over the future of democracy in Belarus, a delegation from the European Parliament today severely criticized President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko's assault on his political opponents and threatened to withhold a team of observers for elections he is trying to orchestrate for the fall.

Mr. West and his team of engineers at the Data General Corporation, in Westborough, Mass., developed a 32-bit microcomputer that briefly led the field of digital processing in the early 1980s, when the computer industry was poised between the eras of the mainframe and the PC.

She is poised between calculation and uncomprehending sensuality.

Her tribute is poised between fellow feeling and light lampoon.

To be poised between worlds, to be "teetering" and vulnerable to forces beyond one's control?

They are poised between mourning and what must be a tempting uncertainty.

Like those works "Bloody" is poised between deadpan wonder and frat-house humor.

By James Wood St. Aubyn's fiction is poised between elegant wit and taut horror.