equipoise
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Often we think that if we are not happy, it's our problem, and we just have to show more grit, or the new terminology, more "mindfulness," and we'd achieve greater equipoise.
From Salon
Through every change of style, Thorn’s voice — low, smoky and pensive, rarely indulging in vibrato or ornamentation — gave the duo’s songs an emotional equipoise.
From New York Times
When it’s complete, the mobile sits in perfect equipoise.
From Washington Post
As we picked up the action a decade after said wedding, we found an unhappy family enduring in a kind of uneasy equipoise.
From New York Times
“There was a sort of equipoise to make it happen,” he said.
From New York Times
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