Sentences with phrase «goes tightrope»

Not exact matches

The key elements of the ceremony — the host's tightrope act, the lengthy, some might say self - congratulatory, running time and the glamorously outfitted stars in the audience — are going to be the same as they ever were.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

Not that I think they'd ever go there, but it'll still be a bit of a tightrope walk for a PG company.

It's a bit of a tightrope act for Democrats to claim «in with the new» as the saying goes, without the part that cries: «out with the old.»

«Stick by us» But walking the tightrope between the party you lead, and the one which gave you your new job was never going to be easy.

So when he returns down the tightrope of shared memories and propositions Kate, we indulge him with joyful relief and go upstairs.

At the red carpet team's request, the camera went in for a tight shot of Theron's sheer gown — not a porn star outfit, like a lot of red carpet getups, but a pretty decent tightrope walk between class and naughtiness, the haute couture equivalent of a Johnny Carson double - entendre — then moved the camera from head to toe like the Big Bad Wolf ogling Red Hot Riding Hood.

«It was a bit of a tightrope because I feel like if you go too far with any sort of graphic violence, it starts to become something else.

There's a tightrope act going on in the early part of the movie as the script tries to make these guys likeable but still throw in enough uncomfortable moments for low humor.

There are plenty of US TV comedy actors in bit parts too (Nick Offerman from Parks & Recreation) and this punchy, rapid - fire, raunchy comedy manages to walk the tightrope of cliché without going too gross or getting sucked into too much sweetness.

My approach is not a stock - picking circus in which we simply advocate going out on a tightrope in search of high - risk growth stocks.

Once you get beyond the intermediate skill level, if players aren't making mistakes, it starts to look like drivers are going across a tightrope on the same line.

Once at its banks, go to the tightrope nearby and walk over it to the rock formation which you have to climb to access the vantage point.

If they go too much above that cost for too long then they'll have to compete with it so they walk a tightrope of price manipulation, through blatant illegal collusion i.e. price fixing, to make sure that there's not sufficient price motivation for anyone to invest the startup capital for large scale coal liquifaction.