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.
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  • 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
  • Each has a two-sided composition: one half contains delicate open patterns, designs, scratches, stripes, and latticework and is counterpoised with a darker, more heavily worked half that implies more hidden within.
  • As Bailar and Gornik probed their own data further, they began to discern such forces counterpoised against each other with almost exquisite precision. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • Since the Long Parliament and those of the interregnum had abused their authority as freely as Charles I had done, it seemed pointless to build them up as a counterpoise to the Crown.
  • Its mighty counterpoise, bright Thorius, lay not far to the left of it. KING OF DREAMS
  • 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.
  • The two nations'nuclear forces are in perfect counterpoise , ie are equal.
  • Placed against a deep and vibrant golden background, a couple is locked in an embrace on the very edge of a flower-strewn, carpet-like meadow, and their hazardous position is counterpoised in a protective halo of gleaming gold.
  • It is like a 1950s architectural concept: a miniature solid glass skyscraper counterpoised against a black granite box (which conceals a ventilation shaft for the Jubilee Line).
  • Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian pursued the poetics of counterpoise in their art.
  • Twice he felt the shocking impact of his lance point; once he drove the ferruled counterpoise at a man who went down under his horse's feet. Ailsa Paige
  • Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis.
  • And of course these words are counterpoised by the equally strong judgments implied in the language of sacrifice and patriotism-unless we interpret these as hopelessly undermined by the context.
  • He counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle moon.
  • The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy.
  • In counterpoise was the domestic political imperative to avoid the impression that this raid represented a widening of the war, especially given that since July 1968 there had been a two-year bombing pause over North Vietnam.
  • Nepal and forms some counterpoise to the prevalent demonolatry. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • It is tempting to counterpoise the radical 1960s to the conservative 1950s.
  • Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance.
  • The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury.
  • Now, just as then, the desperation of the poor counterpoises the obscene consumption of the rich.
  • Though he goes into great detail about the complexities of the rhetoric of self in counterpoise with society, Vasquez seems to leave the dichotomy intact, giving us a sense of two disparate rhetorical models.
  • Those social scientists who did not succumb to Grunberg and Eagle's descriptions of exotic shelter subcultures generally counterpoised sensationalist deviance with proof of the persistence of normal life in the shelter.
  • Father, and the "eschatological" received its counterpoise in the view of Jesus 'work as Saviour, in the assurance of being certainly called to the kingdom, and in the conviction that life and future dominion is hid with God the Lord and preserved for believers by him. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking Camilla
  • The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt.
  • Investment adviser is told with me later, you how can so does tousle period counterpoise ?
  • Counterpoise lift (shadoof) · With a rope and bucket lift Chapter 4
  • Thus was conjured up the myth of the Anglo-Saxon supremacy and its counterpoise, the rapid descent of the degenerate post-Roman Britons back to the mud huts and pig sties from which their Italian masters had briefly roused them.
  • Down These Mean Streets thus offers an interesting counterpoise to Appiah's critique of Du Bois, and to all searches for a ‘purified’ discourse of race.
  • In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent.
  • fyrd," which they used as a counterpoise to the feudal levy. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government
  • It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
  • Torsion and counterpoise engines of war - ballistae and trebuchets - could be made in situ with local materials - timber and fibre.
  • The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground.
  • But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another.
  • The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
  • As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
  • Place the two tubes of mixed deposit in the centrifuge, adjust by the addition or subtraction of saline solution so that they counterpoise exactly, and centrifugalise for ten minutes. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
  • The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. Speaking in Tongues
  • Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
  • To develop this observation a bit further, the nation implied by the document would be an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king. January 2006
  • In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
  • Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music.
  • Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
  • In this respect, the dog again acts as a counterpoise to the men.
  • The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
  • Every melodic figure had its replica, every phrase, its counterpoise in his music.
  • The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
  • When the sealed ends are cold and the blood has clotted, place the pipette on the centrifuge, clean end downward; counterpoise and centrifugalise thoroughly. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
  • All parts of the sphere were nicely counterpoised.
  • At the end you are mesmerised by the linear rhythm and the counterpoise of the relief.
  • Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
  • Place the tube in the centrifuge, counterpoise accurately and centrifugalise until the blood cells are thrown down in a compact mass occupying approximately the same volume as is included between the two pencil marks. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
  • As a course offering, it would perhaps be more useful at the graduate level as a supplement and counterpoise to more traditional thinking on the subject.
  • Likewise, the volume as a whole enacts a delicate counterpoise between powerful natural drives and equally urgent human discipline.
  • In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion.
  • This is original stuff, and makes the book a useful counterpoise to my favourite architectural history book, Nervi's Aesthetics and Technology in Building.
  • Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds.
  • When Zeus decides who should die in a battle, he weighs the souls of the warriors in counterpoised scale pans until one outweighs the other. Professor Edith Hall, one of Britain's top classicists, quits in row over university budget cuts
  • Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first.
  • Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’.
  • The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington.
  • A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right. THE SELLING OF SEX
  • From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach.
  • Torsion and counterpoise engines of war - ballistae and trebuchets - could be made in situ with local materials - timber and fibre.
  • The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo.
  • The counterpoise lift, or shaduf, is a traditional method from the Middle East and East Asia consisting of a container (leather bag, metal bucket, lined basket) on one end of a pole with a counter weight on the other and a fulcrum in the middle. 5. How plants live and grow
  • He will be a fitting counterpoise to Hindu, and for that matter any other communalism, and a persuasive harbinger of the Indian version of secularism.
  • Its mighty counterpoise, bright Thorius, lay not far to the left of it. KING OF DREAMS
  • Anti-Enlightenment philosophy had a great influence on 19th-century Romanticism, which repudiated reason in favour of nature worship, and counterpoised the genius of the artist to mass mediocrity.
  • In 1980, it seemed, these two attitudes were in perfect counterpoise.
  • The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism.

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