counterpoise
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Molina, the embodiment of theatrical excellence, is perfectly cast as the rational counterpoise to Brady’s zealotry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
We can counterpoise that to the pediatric possessive: “You’re going to take your bath,” “It’s time for your nap.”
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
What Sofiya succeeds in doing in her novel is to counterpoise, to her husband’s inability to conjure love, her own utterly different vision.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015
At times Bond acts as a counterpoise to Wanamaker's despair; at other times, as when she voices Eleanor's escalating insecurities, she brings her own tragic intensity to the role.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2013
The communal system was springing up, the towns were receiving royal encouragement as a counterpoise to the authority of the nobles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
In a cluttered information age, where attention is a prized and scarce commodity, Nuzzi and Lizza—with their perfectly counterpoised surnames—have somehow broken through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
The baby is not a metaphor, the narrator warns us, yet her wild, untrammeled, inscrutable being is everywhere counterpoised by the internet’s similarly enigmatic existence.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
In the more lush musical passages, she counterpoised a subtle sense of freeze-framing, with the dancers halting momentarily so we could absorb the length and reach of their unfolding shapes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019
It’s composed in a rare register: mourning and fury counterpoised by humor and a refusal of despair.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
Unopposed, it sweeps every thing before it; but, counterpoised, the waters become calm, safe, and regular.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
He returns to his main thesis, and other counterpoising arguments occur to him.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher
Tested in this way, a body would, of course, weigh precisely the same anywhere; for if the gravitation of the body is altered, so is also in equal proportion the gravitation of the counterpoising weights.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
Attached to the suspending machinery are two counterpoising weights, which being less heavy than the waggon laden with coal, do not impede its descent.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Also, a counterpoising log of wood, rigged out from the side of a narrow boat or canoe, to prevent it from being upset.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The attraction exerted on a flat armature across air gaps 2 millimeters thick was measured by counterpoising.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
