Sentences with phrase «delicate of tightropes»

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David Cameron walked a delicate diplomatic tightrope today, after he issued guarded but unprecedented criticism of the way Algeria is handling the hostage crisis in its territory.

She is trying — and probably failing — to be neither «too aloof» nor «too demonstrative,» as Mitch requested of the lovebirds, but it is a delicate balance and there are still more challenging traversals of this tightrope ahead, more complex negotiations of both internal and external forces.

Pablo Larrain and Natalie Portman engage in a delicate waltz here, walking a tightrope of tone that suggests the archness required of a woman who had the mantle of the American ideal thrust upon her, only to see the American real come crashing down on her in a moment of terrible violence.

As the prominent losers, Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, and David Lyons are crisply engaging, keenly aware of the delicate tonal tightrope they must walk so as to prevent themselves from tumbling over into the valley of inadvertent camp and self - parody.

As Newtown, Conn., administrators are learning, school leaders walk a delicate tightrope in helping their schools find «a new normal» in the wake of a tragedy.