How To Use Counterpoised In A Sentence
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The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
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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.
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Silverman counterpoised an ‘action frame of reference’ to the open systems contingency perspective that was by now dominant in organization analysis.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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High-end shopping is not very democratic either: excess on one hand is counterpoised by fundamental lack on the other.
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The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
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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
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In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent.
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The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt.
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Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking
Camilla
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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.
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The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury.
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As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
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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.
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All parts of the sphere were nicely counterpoised.
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The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
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It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
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In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
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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
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Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia?
BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
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The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental.
Speaking in Tongues
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A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right.
THE SELLING OF SEX
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor.
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But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another.
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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.
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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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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.
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Part of the chypre (dry, smoky or warm balsamic leather accords counterpoised with a fresh top note) family, it is quietly magnetic at first.
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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
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Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds.
