Слово "poise". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Dignity and poise swung into melody, and the melody itself, unfettered, uncontrolled, soared to a silly, sensuous ecstasy.

There were hundreds of these blossoms, all from the one stem, delicately poised and ethereally frail.

He had learned control and poise, and he knew the law.

It was my lack of poise of course that made such a bad impression on people like Mrs Danvers.

I don't feel Hester has got the poise, the balance to -1 feel she's young for her age, uncertain of herself, liable to have brainstorms.

She was a product of the fancy, the feeling, the innate affection of the untutored but poetic mind of her mother combined with the gravity and poise which were characteristic of her father.

His poise of baffled despair was admirable.

Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face, or the poise of his head, without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.

She had always been high-spirited, with the well-poised head and buoyant step of the outdoors girl. It must have been much more in keeping with Louise's character, as I knew it, to resent vigorously any unwelcome attentions from Doctor Walker. It was the suitor whom I should have expected to see in headlong flight, not the lady in the case.

Their insignia was a hand poised with fingers ready to snap.

After all, this man represented men who controlled enormous sums of money, much of which had been pooled recently to poise Sedgewick Sexton on the threshold of the most powerful office in the world.

The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest.

Despite the prodigality of his nature, he had poise.

He turned to the door and had taken only two steps when Vallery's voice stopped him dead, poised on one foot.

The hand, poised like doom above him, hesitated, and the man spoke laughing,

At the corner of the desk, knees crossed, pencil poised over an open notebook, Della Street, Perry Mason's secretary, regarded both men with level, contemplative eyes.

The wall was all hung with pictures of people sleeping, and the Sorting Hat was casually poised on a hatrack that was also holding two umbrellas and three red slippers for left feet.

On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.

“Once again,” he would say during the rehearsal, and old Sullivan, the conductor who was with us always, on every tour, wherever we were, waited a moment, his baton poised, holding the orchestra—and then into it again they went, the last verse of the song, and the same inflections were repeated, the same gestures, while away back in the circle, on tiptoe in the darkness, stood Maria, a flickering shadow moving across the surface of the mirror.

I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm: not soon enough, however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it.

But the she-wolf coolly thrust past him. She poised for a moment, then sprang for the dancing rabbit.

In the corner of the tank sat the lobster, poised apparently for action.