How To Use counterpoised In A Sentence
- The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
- 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.
- Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.