A perfectly poised young woman looked back at her, her chin resolutely high.

Adam stood smiling at the two of them, a small figure perfectly poised exactly between Heaven and Hell.

Now the sun was below the horizon, the day perfectly poised between light and dark.

Even with her gun pointed in another direction, she remained perfectly poised and said, "I can get the drop on her."

In some ways, Mac's comedy was perfectly poised for prime time.

Although the young man was perfectly poised and polite, I gained an impression of duplicity from him.

He swept his arm to cover the group of perfectly poised, completely un-self-conscious, naked men and women.

Bleak House represents the author at a perfectly poised late-middle moment in his extraordinary art.

He rested, perfectly poised, the water neither warming nor cooling his naked body.

He was perfectly poised; relaxed and wary at the same time.