Sentences with phrase «balance on the tightrope»

Test your balance on a tightrope, take a closer look at the ornate costumes worn by performers and squeeze into an impossibly tiny clown car.

Obviously this is an animated film so directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon do have the leeway of creating a rather improbable plot, but little children may too realize that giraffes and hippopotamuses can not defy gravity and balance on a tightrope 50 feet (or more) above the ground.

... We are continuing to balance on the tightrope between investment opportunity and risk aversion, taking advantage of the most compelling opportunities while maintaining a very cautious posture in an environment where most securities are priced for perfection and then some.

He's uninterested in forcing viewers to engage with hot topics or historicity; if an exhibition is a circus, he refuses to balance on the tightrope.

He seems to be balancing on a tightrope.

Not exact matches

More often than not, maintaining it is a balancing act between credit and cash on hand, and it's a tricky tightrope to walk.

«Finding the right balance is like walking a tightrope; our work has focused on finding ways to keep oxidative stress at bay.»

Every time you use your arms to balance by holding them out to the sides like a tightrope walker, you're intuitively taking advantage of the fact that as weight moves away from your center of gravity, it has a greater effect on your equilibrium.

Slacklining is the sport of balancing on a rope or strip of webbing, sort of like a tightrope, but generally not stretched as taut.

To talk of the plot of Sucker Punch walks a tightrope balance on giving away too much.

Depending on the property, a movie studio must balance ever so perilously on a line that can waver about as if suspended like a tightrope in midair.

Official Premise: Poignant, romantic and mesmerizing, writer / director Woody Allen's latest masterpiece centers around Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), a former New York socialite teetering on an emotional tightrope, balancing between her troubled east coast past and a fresh start in San Francisco.

Our «Buffy in Japan» sales pitch mixed with high quality art / story, good word of mouth, YALSA recognition, and our ability to balance on a shaky tightrope between American comics and manga is working for us.

The result was a coaster that achieved a perfect 10 on the Nausea scale and left only two of its riders in their seats, their inner ears wobbling for balance like a vaudevillian tightrope walker.

Completing the show is «Tightrope Walker» where a miniscule figure hand - carved in wood balances precariously, defying gravity, on a thin wire holding a pole.

The works on view are part of an ongoing series entitled «Tightrope,» which refers to the contemporary balancing act between technology and tradition, humanity and the environment.

There is a really, I think what you're talking about too, I sat on a diversity panel presentation for our local Louisville bar association not too long ago and one of my co-panel members who was a man from a local corporation stood up and said that he does trainings in this area and he said, «I have that people, particularly men who come to my trainings look at, I have them list all the male characteristics they can think of and all the «female characteristics» that they can think of and then I draw this line down the middle and I say women at work have to walk down this narrow line of not being too masculine and not being too feminine and finding that balance between the two and that's a difficult tightrope to walk sometimes.»