counterweighted

I just had to do it – I hope it didn't come across as misogynistic or gratuitous … I do think it's counterweighted by the fact that I'm in love now.

Carl Barât: The interview Alice Fisher 2010

They are counterweighted by moments of ache (Wayne's abuse, Margene's break-down at her old job), humor (Nicki's catty asides), and tenderness.

Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1 Mark Blankenship 2011

Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

As David Owen points out in his forthcoming Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in the office campus, people work in sprawling buildings and drive between them; in the high-rise, people work in a compact building, use elevators (which are inherently energy-efficient, since they are counterweighted), and walk to lunch.

The Green Case for Cities 2009

They are counterweighted by moments of ache (Wayne's abuse, Margene's break-down at her old job), humor (Nicki's catty asides), and tenderness.

Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1 Mark Blankenship 2011

Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

As David Owen points out in his forthcoming Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in the office campus, people work in sprawling buildings and drive between them; in the high-rise, people work in a compact building, use elevators (which are inherently energy-efficient, since they are counterweighted), and walk to lunch.

The Green Case for Cities 2009

Common sense is still marginalized as "the left," counterweighted in the media by the intensifying stridency of the highly organized and well-financed Republican right.

The Gitmo Distraction 2010

Common sense is still marginalized as "the left," counterweighted in the media by the intensifying stridency of the highly organized and well-financed Republican right.

Robert Koehler: The Gitmo Distraction 2010

In a suburban office campus, for example, people work in low, sprawling buildings and drive between them; in a city, people work in compact multistory buildings, use elevators which are inherently energy efficient since they are counterweighted, and walk to lunch.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010