Sentences with word «highwire»

Amy Adams stars as a linguist reaching out to extraterrestrial visitors in Denis Villeneuve's high - concept highwire act of a film

The Gaels» match with San Ramon Valley was volleyball at its tensest, walking - the - win - or - lose - highwire best, with a final game where the momentum repeatedly teetered from team to team.

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But when he effortlessly takes to highwire performances over certain - death drops, swings from ropes and chains above bottomless pits without a care in the world, and faultlessly defeats inch - wide ledges without even the vaguest hint of failure, those other incompetencies are just highlighted and made to look ridiculous, and that just makes them even more annoying and intolerable.

Taken from Jane Kinsman's essay A highwire act.

Considering the process of landing Newton and the continued media fallout, Auburn's 2010 highwire act actually lasted something like six years.

The safety net was supposed to be just that: an opportunity to bounce back after you fell off the highwire.

Indeed, the film walks a highwire tightrope for two - thirds of the picture and pretty much nails it.

Ocean's Eleven is The Dirty Dozen by way of The Sting, living and dying on the highwire between «hey, I wish I were like these people» and «hey, get over yourself.»

But if the CGT is a highwire tightrope act, then the Enzo is a hike along Striding Edge.

A week after marking the debut of the all - new Jaguar XF with a highwire stunt over London's Royal Victoria docks, the British premium automaker showed off the second generation luxury sedan at the New York Auto Show.

Creating large - scale oil paintings, she uses an intuitive process that she compares to a «highwire act.»

Beta users can now experience a Firefox that is 2x faster than it was last year; a Firefox that balances memory usage like a highwire acrobat, using 30 % less memory than Chrome; a Firefox with a beautiful new design, plus a more stable add - ons experience; a browser with more of what you love and less of what you don't.