How to Use equipoise in a Sentence

equipoise

noun

• In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• If you're faced with certain death equipoise just seems crazy to you as a patient.
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2015
• Still, in a handful of scenes, Pose pulls this act off with perfect equipoise, a model of how to embody light in the dark.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
• But the slickness and equipoise of Tangled Up in Blue betray themselves.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• Faye rarely looks inward; those books exude a kind of chilly spiritual equipoise.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021
• All the same, there’s something about munching on human flesh that wrecks your equipoise in ways that almost nothing else does, classic vampirism...
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2017
• No matter how heavy the weather on his surfaces, all the elements of his pictures have museum-grade equipoise.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• His stance is one of equipoise, and his lifelong theme, which answers to his forgiving instincts, is human error: the gravest, the looniest, and the most enduring of all tautologies.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• These little affectations only add to the overall equipoise, in the same way that a completely bare waiting room is eerie but a waiting room with a ficus evokes no feelings at all.
  — Sasha Chapin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• But from a biological standpoint, such equipoise is standard fare.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 11 July 2018
• In his treatment of the Allah of the Quran, suspension of disbelief is finely balanced by a generous suspension of his own personal beliefs, and his book is all the stronger for this equipoise.
  — Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• Christ—the anatomy of man in God’s image—and the cross—the structural geometric intersection—align in precise aesthetic and spiritual equipoise.
  — Vogue, 11 Oct. 2017
• Russia, meanwhile, had recovered its equipoise and some of its strength and turned decidedly — in some ways, violently — against a friendly approach toward the West.
  — Elbridge Colby, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
• But the particular soil composition, plus the balance achieved through bright sunlight hours and the cool climate, indeed produce fully mature tannins and equipoise of acidity and alcohol.
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Western Europe at the end of the 15th century was characterized by a unique equipoise between political fracture and civilizational unity.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
• Hughes’s mastery of American sentimentalizing rhetoric and his irony regarding the country’s actual workings sit in stark equipoise.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
• Cézanne’s scattershot approach triumphed in his conflations of surface with depth, which abolished perspective by locating the near and the relatively distant with shading and color, perceived all at once in increasingly perfect equipoise.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
• In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• If you're faced with certain death equipoise just seems crazy to you as a patient.
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2015
• Still, in a handful of scenes, Pose pulls this act off with perfect equipoise, a model of how to embody light in the dark.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
• But the slickness and equipoise of Tangled Up in Blue betray themselves.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• Faye rarely looks inward; those books exude a kind of chilly spiritual equipoise.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021
• All the same, there’s something about munching on human flesh that wrecks your equipoise in ways that almost nothing else does, classic vampirism...
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2017
• No matter how heavy the weather on his surfaces, all the elements of his pictures have museum-grade equipoise.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• His stance is one of equipoise, and his lifelong theme, which answers to his forgiving instincts, is human error: the gravest, the looniest, and the most enduring of all tautologies.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• These little affectations only add to the overall equipoise, in the same way that a completely bare waiting room is eerie but a waiting room with a ficus evokes no feelings at all.
  — Sasha Chapin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• But from a biological standpoint, such equipoise is standard fare.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 11 July 2018
• In his treatment of the Allah of the Quran, suspension of disbelief is finely balanced by a generous suspension of his own personal beliefs, and his book is all the stronger for this equipoise.
  — Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• Christ—the anatomy of man in God’s image—and the cross—the structural geometric intersection—align in precise aesthetic and spiritual equipoise.
  — Vogue, 11 Oct. 2017
• Russia, meanwhile, had recovered its equipoise and some of its strength and turned decidedly — in some ways, violently — against a friendly approach toward the West.
  — Elbridge Colby, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019

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