equipoise

Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

I hoped that during the next decade, the pendulum would swing back from 9/11 overreach and regain some semblance of equipoise.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025

But there are some from across the debate who don't think there is equipoise in this case.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024

In a capital packed with bloviators and arm-twisters, Jackson maintains an equipoise of soft-spoken graciousness, combining intellectual clarity with iron resolve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Certainly much of Katherine’s equipoise came from her father, Joshua.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It’s the sort of thing those who’ve avoided playing Minecraft but still find it intriguing should pay attention to—an exquisite, LEGO-like builder deftly equipoised between structured and freeform play.

From Time ● Dec. 19, 2016

When the brain is wearied by the passions, appetite and digestion are almost gone….There is nowhere perfect health, save when the passions are well regulated, harmonized, and equipoised.

From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

This calling was too precarious to suit his equipoised mind.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

The Kentuckian's pulsations seem to be regulated by a gigantic and equipoised animal impulse.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers

He will be a self-centered, equipoised, and ever master of himself.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden