sense of balance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandbalance
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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balance
noun
uk/ˈbæl.əns/us/ˈbæl.əns/
a state where things are of equal weight ...
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(Definition ofsenseandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thissenseofbalanceis what makes his contrapuntal realisation rhetorically elegant.
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Asenseofbalanceis not necessary for any of these compositions, but cannot be ruled out.
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This double text created a visual parallelism, asenseofbalancebetween original and translation.
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The improviser gives shape to the flow of musical lines by controlling the length of time in developing ideas and motives, maintaining asenseofbalanceand contrast.
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Some standard speech is necessary to keep asenseofbalancein order to make this a creative work with a reasonably broad appeal, and not simply a dialect tract.
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We need to have somesenseofbalanceand moderation about this.
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One must say that much if one is to preserve asenseofbalance.
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One reason for speaking in the debate is that it is important to introduce asenseofbalance.
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One has to keep asenseofbalance.
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I hope we shall not lose oursenseofbalance.
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In my view, that creates an advocate of a more independent frame of mind, with a bettersenseofbalanceand greater fairness.
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What we must try to achieve is asenseofbalance.
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Is it not important to keep asenseofbalanceand proportion?
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But one has to keep asenseofbalanceand a sense of public responsibility.
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What we need is asenseofbalance.
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It is for thatsenseofbalance, which he displayed throughout his life, that he will be most keenly remembered.
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There is a need now to restore asenseofbalanceand a sense of perspective.
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It also emphasises the importance of asenseofbalanceand readiness to mobilise all the sources of care in the community.
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