All 8 Uses of
poise
in
The Fountainhead
- But she moved as she had moved in the drawing room of Kiki Holcombe—with the same cold poise and confidence.†
Chpt 1.12
- He was angrier than she had ever seen him; his face lost all the charm of his usual sarcastic poise.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- There are a great many nice adjectives one could use about Katie, but 'poised' and 'distinguished' are not among them.†
Chpt 2.11
- So I won't play the poised host.†
Chpt 2.14
- Dominique sat at the other end of the room, her thin body fitted obediently to the contours of a straight-backed chair; she did not look stiff, only too poised for comfort.†
Chpt 3.2
- I'm only hysterical, but it's quite all right, I'm saying something, I don't know what it is, but it must be all right, they are both listening and answering, Gail is smiling, I must be saying the proper things.... Dinner was announced and she rose obediently; she led the way to the dining room, like a graceful animal given poise by conditioned reflexes.†
Chpt 4.4
- In the ludicrous folds of the pyjamas, with dark cloth bulging over a belt wound tightly, with sleeves hanging over her fingertips, she had all the poised elegance she displayed in her best hostess gown.†
Chpt 4.17
- She stood, her hand lifted and closed about a cable, her high heels poised firmly on the planks.†
Chpt 4.20
Definitions:
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(1)
(poise) calm, confident, and in control—especially in movement, behavior, or when ready to act
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.