Sentence examples for with a poised from inspiring English sources

That final, potentially melodramatic line is brought off with a poised efficiency that seems inevitable, and characteristic.

Portia declaims her lines with a poised, semi-affectless mien that suggests a chilling indifference to her patient's obvious distress.

One clip juxtaposes a scowling George Bush with a poised, almost dreamy bin Laden; between them is an image of the World Trade Center engulfed in flames.

But there is plenty of muscle to her performance as well, along with a poised, unselfconscious grace and, most importantly, a formidable intelligence that rarely makes a single note seem superfluous.

Menachem wrote, "She may be reaching a new level with a poised vocal performance, as she too is looking to be taken seriously".

In her late teens Assia was already a remarkable beauty with a poised dress sense but no money.

WASHINGTON — Jim Lehrer is sitting in the second row of a nearly empty auditorium watching a rehearsal with a pen poised over a script open on his lap.

Here is "Jumbo" (2001), a circus elephant with a woman poised on his truck.

And with a voice poised between sympathy and amusement, he finds a kindly twinkle for everyone.

All of this comes with a perfectly poised celeriac rémoulade.

Instead he sets down things as they are with a perfectly poised and haunted realism.