counterpoised

When Zeus decides who should die in a battle, he weighs the souls of the warriors in counterpoised scale pans until one outweighs the other.

Professor Edith Hall, one of Britain's top classicists, quits in row over university budget cuts 2011

As Bailar and Gornik probed their own data further, they began to discern such forces counterpoised against each other with almost exquisite precision.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

As Bailar and Gornik probed their own data further, they began to discern such forces counterpoised against each other with almost exquisite precision.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

But that was not what held them counterpoised in this intensity of anger and hostility, so strange to both of them, and causing them both such indignant pain.

His Disposition 2010

As Bailar and Gornik probed their own data further, they began to discern such forces counterpoised against each other with almost exquisite precision.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental.

Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009

A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right.

THE SELLING OF SEX 2008

Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia?

BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians Roger Sutton 2006

To develop this observation a bit further, the nation implied by the document would be an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king.

January 2006 2006

Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking

Camilla 2008