Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows tha...
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?
The key to winning is poise under stress.
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
The mistake we all make is in assuming anybody remembers damnthing from one day to the next. If that were true, we'd stop getting involved with approximately the same kind of wrong lover each time, we'd learn the lessons of history, the death penalty...
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
