Sentences with phrase «of a tightrope»

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.»
(He is the painter's equivalent of a tightrope walker, which is something Giorgio Morandi never felt compelled to aspire to.)
The famous island 17th hole was the epitome of the tightrope act that is a place where it seems every Tiger round exists these days.
According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of the ordinary.»
The missing 10 % is a minor issue: while guiding Link across the equivalent of a tightrope (among other narrow passages), the 3DS» thumbstick is a slight hindrance because it can not be pressed as delicately as the thumbstick on the N64, GameCube, or Wii controllers.
I find that most of my Tightrope patients return to function faster than with the older LI techniques.
So it's kind of a tightrope that we walk.»
It was probably Osborne's best conference speech of recent years, constructed with all the balancing ingenuity of a tightrope artist.
There are also lunatics congregating on the other side of the tightrope: those who are treating the mere appearance of rationality as a fetish.
I love trying to master this mixture of tightrope and trampoline fun.
He discovers that information while browsing the newspaper accounts of his tightrope walk between the towers of Notre - Dame Cathedral.
What Zhao has done with The Rider may sound simple, but she has walked the most delicate of tightropes and done it with grace.
Mentored by Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), the multilingual patriarch of a family of tightrope walkers, Philippe finds further accomplices in a photographer (Clément Sibony), an electronics store owner (James Badge Dale, resuming the scene - stealer duties he briefly held in Zemeckis» Flight), a life insurance salesman who works high in one of the towers (Steve Valentine), and a couple of iffy allies («Parks & Rec»'s Ben Schwartz and, comic relief, Benedict Samuel).
The documentary footage of the tightrope walker and the parachutist...
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.
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.
«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
This character is even more representative of the tightrope I, Tonya is trying to walk: LaVona is strategically deployed for both her acidic laugh - lines (usually insults directed at her daughter) and the childhood beatings she allegedly visited on Harding.
Jaguar unveiled their second - generation XF sedan ahead of the New York auto show by driving it across a pair of tightrope cables hung over London's Royal Victoria docks.
Untitled (1935), parts of Tightrope (1936), and a maquette for an outdoor stabile, New York City storefront studio, winter 1936
On this tautest of tightropes, I dared to make grand gestures, racing out to the end of the limb and trusting that I would not fall.»
There's an aspect of tightrope walking to all of the works in this exhibition, a high - wire act where a shift in emphasis one way or another can destroy a delicate balance.
According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of...
«I think the reason we had such an easy time talking about Lincoln and sharing a vision of Lincoln is that we both agree so deeply [that he] was an incredibly dextrous walker of tightropes,» said «Lincoln» screenwriter Tony Kushner, who joined Spielberg in the director's New York office to talk about the film.
The whole game is a bit of a tightrope.
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