In many ways it is a balancing act, and you may feel
like a tightrope walker, tottering along a very precarious route.
It's fascinating, and we loved the trippy video where divers act
like tightrope artists «walking» along their guide wires underwater.
In A Short Trip a tree - dwelling possum traverses the painting's edges,
like a tightrope walker on a single arching branch.
This youth looks
like a tightrope walker as he tries to jump a puddle in front of 376 Richmond Terrace.
Rachel Lyon navigates a spectrum of loyalty and betrayal
like a tightrope - walker, with all of the attendant suspense.
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.
But in McDonagh's careful hands, it's a Cirque du Soleil -
like tightrope walk, gracefully balancing the harrowing with the humorous.
Beau travail evokes him not only in the aforementioned encounters between sculptural bodies and heroic music, but in its musically inflected montages and its beautifully ordered compositions devoted to various maneuvers: crawling under barbed wire, vaulting over bars, occupying the shell of a half - constructed building, walking across parallel wires
like tightrope artists imitating flurries of notes on a musical staff.
Slacklining is the sport of balancing on a rope or strip of webbing, sort of
like a tightrope, but generally not stretched as taut.
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.
«It is
like tightrope - walking without a net,» says Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends at the American Cancer Society.
String theorists would say we're
like the tightrope walker, except that our «rope» is an 11 - dimensional space, of which we are able to perceive only four dimensions.
Not exact matches
Instead,
like many women, she was asked to walk a
tightrope — one that had as much to do with her personality as her investing ability.
We should feel stable and secure, not
like we're walking a
tightrope that may not hold us all the way.
This is something
like walking a
tightrope, and they will need all the help they can get both from the pastor and from Al - Anon.
Walking the skincare isle feels
like walking a
tightrope.
Several recipes were
like an experienced
tightrope walker; they got to the other side without a hitch.
Ran around
like a headless chicken, but that was his downfall — an early yellow card meant that he was walking a
tightrope for the rest of the game.
It is a challenge to him,
like walking a
tightrope.»
Warming up in the bullpen, he was not even conscious of the drizzle or the cold or the young boy, his arms outspread
like wings, who was
tightrope - walking across the top of the outfield fence.
Francis Coquelin has looked ropey in his last couple of games, and in a big match
like this he can't afford to be walking a
tightrope when it comes to bookings.
Managing their expectations is
like walking a
tightrope.
It would have been a
tightrope walk that would require LBJ
like skill to reach a bipartisan 50 % votes in the house.
Do tricks
like balancing, tilting at crazy angles, and walking a
tightrope.
«Finding the right balance is
like walking a
tightrope; our work has focused on finding ways to keep oxidative stress at bay.»
Though warrior I has traditionally be taught with the heel of the front foot lined up with the arch of the back foot (
like standing on a
tightrope), it makes more sense for most people to separate their feet to either side of the mat a bit more (
like standing on train tracks).
like so many of your looks, you can read it as a «costume» but it is also just a great, flattering, on - point look - quite a
tightrope to walk there:) it was so thoughtful of you to stop by my blog - don't worry, posts are percolating and i've started taking pics of me looks again, almost without thinking about it (habit).
Being so close to someone
like him definitely required a
tightrope walk, and Shin and Choi seemed masterful at it.
It addresses
like few American films do the difficulty of making and maintaining a living in a swiftly - tilting economy, the shrinking corporate universe that's resulted in monopolies in fact if not in name, and the financial
tightrope of second mortgages and a credit card dependency.
The late third act transference of the Wendigo figure into the father as avenger — a metamorphosis represented with ingenious basement and in - camera effects — is a series of
tightrope maneuvres that shouldn't work but work
like a bastard.
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.
We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year,
like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much
like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the
tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.
«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.
Like its aerialist hero, this saga of the
tightrope walk between the Twin Towers overcomes many potential disasters on its way to triumph
One minute a fiercely honest character study about a man coping with bipolar disorder, and the next minute a charming rom - com revolving around an amateur dancing competition, the film performs such an amazing
tightrope act that it's really to Russell's credit that it doesn't come crashing down
like a house of cards.
The difference is the new levels of consistency and progression mean you can really enjoy testing its limits, rather than feeling
like you're walking a
tightrope.
If you have unpaid debt, it can feel
like you are walking on a
tightrope without a safety net.
Does your debt make you feel
like you are walking on a
tightrope without a safety net?
You may feel
like you're walking on a
tightrope, teetering on the edge of guilt for the idea of incarcerating your dog, but still wondering about how crating can help jump start and positively influence your puppy's obedience for life.
It's clear that the developers completely understand that with a game
like this they're walking on a
tightrope covered in butter, and the helping hand they give player's is just enough.
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.
If you recall, the original Uncharted — which was released fairly early in the PS3's life — utilized sixaxis controls for mechanics
like bomb - tossing and
tightrope balancing.
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.
In her own words: «To make the edge that meets in an unexpected way is
like walking a
tightrope.»
In such pieces Lavier,
like Duchamp before him, walks the
tightrope between art and nonart.
She is
like an artist on a
tightrope, walking forward within this with such precision that it is both dangerous and exciting.
Works have been created alluding to traditional circus acts
like acrobatics, aerial acts with trapeze, juggling, daredevil stunts
like human cannonball, fire eating and magic shows, the performance of strongmen,
tightrope walkers, animal tamers, stilt walkers, clowns, unicyclers and pantomimes.
Building a career in the modern workplace can feel a lot
like walking the
tightrope: it takes focus, risk, determination, and grace; but one misstep can lead to a gigantic fall.
Negotiating salary when an offer is not yet on the table may make you feel
like you're walking a
tightrope.
Learning to «speak» body language may come in handy especially during job interviews where you might feel
like you're
tightrope walking.