(1) Balke's careful, walking on eggshells piano etches graceful, poised lines or occasionally, prepared piano abstractions.

(2) He's a poised lad, very much in control of what he says and, ultimately, what we are allowed to know about him.

(3) Eleanor walked into the ballroom with the grace of a dancer, poised and elegant.

(4) A tall, good-looking young man, poised and self-assured, Bassam is a Christian.

(5) The Dinka are incapable of doing anything without a poised elegance.

(6) Here also she gets her lines right, she is still poised and graceful, she is still fetching on the dance floor, but she has precious little to do.

(7) He was faced with a gorgeous man in his forties with silky, boy-cut brown hair, a poised stance, and a charming smile.

(8) She's like a child grown in a pod on Mars: far too poised and intelligent to resemble any kid from our planet.

(9) He could not imagine this calm, poised woman before him using language like that, but the young girl within her?

(10) Jen looked poised and beautiful, the quintessential bride, in red patent-leather Betty Boop heels.

(11) Finding love and being a good companion are slightly more challenging projects for even such a poised and educated young lady.

(12) The poised , confident young woman was tossed into a world of checkpoints, strip searches and interrogations.

(13) Her aura of poised confidence was gone, leaving behind a tired air.

(14) The Head RN merely arched a well-plucked eyebrow, and Cassie stood in the doorway as poised and silent as a statue.

(15) The end result: you look leaner, taller, more poised and confident.

(16) She couldn't help but wonder that if he was that attractive and poised just walking around, then what could he be like in bed?

(17) It was the kind of thing that made one think back to a time of elegant ladies and poised gentlemen.

(18) Keira was always in control, always composed, poised and confident.

(19) I walked up poised and proud with tears shimmering in my eyes.

(20) Jake's poised and assertive manner was diminishing before my very eyes.

(21) Couched in poised and lucid prose, The Namesake is a an exquisite tale, full of fine and fragile humour.

(22) He is also a poised senior who makes 84.2 percent of his free throws.

(23) A poised and graceful swimmer, she never seemed to tire in the water.

(24) And for the first time today this remarkably poised young woman breaks out into a blush.

(25) By this stage the adrenaline had started pumping around my body, I felt I was ready for anything; alert and poised .

(26) It is a beautifully poised and lean wine, as befits its musical signature of the shrill hunting horn.

(27) In the picture, she looks entirely poised and comfortable.

(28) It's lovely to watch their progress as they grow from cute and clumsy children into poised and elegant women.

(29) This is a beautifully poised film that peels away the external artifice of its central character layer by layer, with each plot twist raising as many questions as it answers.

(30) The elegantly dressed, poised woman looked a bit odd wearing a red and white Santa hat, but it really was cute.