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
• Faye rarely looks inward; those books exude a kind of chilly spiritual equipoise.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2021
• 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
• But from a biological standpoint, such equipoise is standard fare.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 11 July 2018
• 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
• This equipoise of spontaneity and control define Smith’s singular fiction.
  — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Goetz appeared remarkably calm amid a swirling tornado, and multiple people, including Canty, would later comment on Goetz’s equipoise.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Contra earlier models there isn't a monotonic decrease in the rate of adaptation as a function of complexity, but rather an increase until to an equipoise, before a subsequent decrease.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
• The frequency of the allele is balanced at the equipoise between the proportion of people who are more susceptible to malaria if its proportion is too low and those who express sickle cell anemia if its proportion is too high.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2011
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 2016, Americans elected a leader who rejected the very notion of an international system that relies on the United States to maintain equipoise.
  — Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2020