Philip Koch as Philenne Wannelle negotiated Rossinian difficulty with considerable poise.

She has intense self-belief, and considerable intellectual poise; her current reading is the philosopher and essayist Fernando Savater, a present-day Voltaire.

With successive road victories, they are a team showing considerable poise.

The young man had considerable poise as he shook hands with me, with Jory, with Bart, who glowered.

But after completing 20 of 29 passes for 261 yards and 2 touchdowns with considerable poise and no little panache, it is not expected to be his last.

Despite his breakdown in protection, Brown has shown considerable poise.

Dixon wheeled about, maintaining considerable poise, to his credit, but Stern could see that he was wide-awake now.

The securest of them was the pianist Beata Bilinska, who played three big Romantic statements with considerable poise and confidence.

Ransom Wilson brought a warm tone and considerable poise to the work.

Mr. Zedillo responded with considerable poise, pledging in his own speech to respect the autonomy of the Mexican legislature.