grace(MOVEMENT)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confidence & self-assurance
amour propre
aplomb
assertive
assertively
assertiveness
dogmatism
dogmatist
empowered
feel certain
fierce
safe
safety blanket
security blanket
self-assertion
self-assertive
to be sureidiom
too cool for schoolidiom
unbowed
unintimidated
unmoored

poise | American Dictionary

poise
noun[ U ]
us/pɔɪz/
behavior or a way of moving that shows calm confidence:
"I think it was a credit to our team that we kept our poise," the coach said, "even when we were down by 21 points."

Examples of poise

poise
Economic recovery is underway and prices finally seem poised to rise.
These remain poised to restore a necessary conative push as soon as afferent information has been matched intelligently against repertoires of stored plans and values.
And that particular pendulum of professional opinion is presumably poised to reverse course yet again.
This could represent a transition species, poised to accept ant mutualists.
The endeavour was a serious one, typical of a certain fin-de-siecle aspiration towards male classical poise and muscularity.
Thus, endocannabinoids appear poised to modulate visual processing at multiple stages in the inner and outer retinal layers.
Now, the model is poised to begin another stride.
Why did it seem poised to fall at the next blow?
The first movement is played with tremendous power and rhythmic poise.
The end of the century seemed to be poised on the edge of a social alternative.
Order is poised against disorder, knowledge against ignorance, passion against dispassion, and sovereignty against its overthrow.
Instead, there are a large number of messy, competing biochemical processes poised far from equilibrium.
They are a privileged group, poised at the forefront of technological knowledge-based work.
It is a perfect stage set for the outbreak of a revolution, its illuminated enlightenment boulevards poised over rat infested basements.
This poised stillness of the flat, permafrost-covered arctic landscape contrasts with the extreme annual fluctuation of temperature and light.
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