How To Use counterpoised In A Sentence
- A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right. THE SELLING OF SEX
- Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
- All parts of the sphere were nicely counterpoised.
- The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.
- It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
- In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture.
- To develop this observation a bit further, the nation implied by the document would be an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king. January 2006
- Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
- The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. Speaking in Tongues
- As readers may know, Kinsey counterpoised heterosexuality and homosexuality on a single bipolar continuum, which ranged from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality.
