equipoise

As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

I hoped that during the next decade, the pendulum would swing back from 9/11 overreach and regain some semblance of equipoise.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025

But there are some from across the debate who don't think there is equipoise in this case.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024

In a capital packed with bloviators and arm-twisters, Jackson maintains an equipoise of soft-spoken graciousness, combining intellectual clarity with iron resolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Certainly much of Katherine’s equipoise came from her father, Joshua.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It’s the sort of thing those who’ve avoided playing Minecraft but still find it intriguing should pay attention to—an exquisite, LEGO-like builder deftly equipoised between structured and freeform play.

From Time ● Dec. 19, 2016

He will be a self-centered, equipoised, and ever master of himself.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

When power was thus nicely equipoised, there was a natural tendency to avoid conflicting issues.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

This calling was too precarious to suit his equipoised mind.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

The Kentuckian's pulsations seem to be regulated by a gigantic and equipoised animal impulse.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers