counterpoise

How To Use counterpoise In A Sentence

• But that was not what held them counterpoised in this intensity of anger and hostility, so strange to both of them, and causing them both such indignant pain. His Disposition
• The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
• High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other.
• The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
• As Costello's political star rose quickly, the media needed a counterpoise.
• These curve in counterpoise to the curve of the shell, enhancing the reciprocal nature of the two structures.
• Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434). Special Obligations
• Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes.
• The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible.
• And how excellent is contentation, which is a counterpoise against this sin? The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11