Exempel på poised

• She watched a little white bird, poised on a branch and fluttering its wings.

• He sat with his pencil poised, ready to take notes.

• Her finger was poised on the camera as she waited for them to take their positions.

• The two guards stood poised with their shields and swords raised.

• They stood their waiting, poised for action.

• They are a privileged group, poised at the forefront of technological knowledge-based work.

• The waxwork blacksmith, for example, could be poised ready to strike with his hammer at the forge.

• She stood naked on one foot in front of the long mirror, arms poised as if she were about to dance.

• Professional ethicists are poised to turn their attention to neuroscience.

• From here they are poised to reinfest the newly flushed leaves produced by the defoliated tree.

• He was poised to adopt these approaches without condition.

• Being poised and being able to carry them out are different matters.

• The central relationship of the poem is apparently unresolved, poised between anchored commitment and undone moorings.

• They were now poised for the final showdown.

• They are rather poised between alternatives in the knowledge of their outcome, a rhetoric that historical writing can hope to imitate only in part.

• We are poised on the edge of the precipice of either great discoveries or major disasters.

• To be visually conscious in general is to be poised to become aware of a present feature (that is, to become transitively conscious of it).

• In contrast, a player who is truly free and poised will be able to move or remain still with little change to the performance.

• Poised before his empty staves, what does the composer do if not improvise?

• Pressure to implement the latest technology the fastest is real, as the earliest innovators are poised to reap the (potentially) biggest gains65.