All 26 Uses of
poise
in
Dune
- She lifted her right hand away from the box and poised the hand close to the side of Paul's neck.†
Book 1
- Without turning his head, he tried to move his eyes to see that terrible needle poised beside his neck.†
Book 1
- Halleck activated his own shield, crouched with kindjal outthrust in left hand, the rapier poised high in his right.†
Book 1
- Mapes took a backward step, appeared poised to flee.†
Book 1
- Jessica waited, poised.†
Book 1
- He looked, from behind, like a fleshless stick figure in overlarge black clothing, a caricature poised for stringy movement at the direction of a puppet master.†
Book 1
- But the young body carried a sense of command, a poised assurance,
Book 1 *poised = coolness and composure
- He stepped forward, opening his robe, saw Halleck come up on the balls of his feet, poised and alert, but remaining where he was.†
Book 1
- There was a poise to them totally unlike the Harkonnens.†
Book 1
- The Duke grabbed the microphone, hesitated with thumb poised over its switch.†
Book 1
- People all around the table sat poised for flight, hands out of sight under the table.†
Book 1
- She saw that Idaho was poised for instant action.†
Book 1
- Leto turned him over with a foot, knife poised, bent close in the dim light to see the face.†
Book 1
- Hand on belt switch, kindjal poised, the Duke skirted the body, slipped down the passage and peered around the corner toward the shield generator room.†
Book 1
- The mind-calming Bene Gesserit regimen his mother had taught him kept him poised, ready to expand any opportunity.†
Book 1
- There was a casual air of brutality about him, a sense of toughness and poise that sent a shiver through Yueh.†
Book 1
- " Cause and effect: he was alive despite malignant forces, and he felt himself poised on a brink of self-awareness that could not have been without the litany's magic.†
Book 2
- An answer lay poised at the edge of his awareness, but refused to come.†
Book 2
- It hopped backward among its companions and all stood poised for flight.†
Book 2
- He felt muscles untie themselves, become poised and ready.†
Book 2
- Lady Fenring, noting the young man's poise and the sure flow of muscles beneath the tunic thought: Here's one who won't let himself go to fat.†
Book 2
- He held himself poised in the awareness, seeing time stretch out in its weird dimension, delicately balanced yet whirling, narrow yet spread like a net gathering countless worlds and forces, a tightwire that he must walk, yet a teeter-totter on which he balanced.†
Book 2
- They lay massed like a thunderhead on his horizon, held back by no more than the Fremen and their Muad'Dib, the sleeping giant Fremen poised for their wild crusade across the universe.†
Book 2
- =========================== And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.†
Book 3
- The Emperor stood poised, waiting — a slim, elegant figure in a gray Sardaukar uniform with silver and gold trim.†
Book 3
- Yet, the feeling was like hunger, and he poised himself several times in his suspensors on the point of ordering food brought to him.†
Book 3
Definition:
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(poise) calm and in control -- as in "shows poise under pressure"
and/or:
prepared for action -- as in "poised for action" -- (sometimes suspended or hovering as in "a finger poised over the mute button")
and/or:
confident and graceful in movement -- as in "the poise and balance of a dancer"