Sentences with phrase «of a tightrope walker»

The documentary footage of the tightrope walker and the parachutist...

(He is the painter's equivalent of a tightrope walker, which is something Giorgio Morandi never felt compelled to aspire to.)

Not exact matches

Last week thrill - seeking tightrope walker, Nik Wallenda successfully traversed a tightrope hundreds of feet above the Chicago River, strung between two skyscrapers while blindfolded without a safety net or safety harness.

If, in heaven, I decided I want to learn to become a tightrope walker, and I become so good I decide to tightrope across the heavenly version of Niagara Falls, what happens if I make a mistake and I fall?

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.

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.

Let»em be test pilots, tightrope walkers, human cannonballs and such - any career safer than the business of tutus and tiaras.

Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.

It's fun to think of these two young men using digital technology to do every crazy little thing they ever dreamed of: Steve sends potato chips arcing in a continuous stream from the bag into his mouth; Andrew becomes a champion juggler and tightrope walker at a school talent show.

«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 film's greatest strengths are Eddie Redmayne, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score, Benoît Delhomme cinematography and, at risk of crowding the list of highlights, one must credit James Marsh's helming of the project entire, which echoes his previous Oscar - winning effort, Man on Wire, in a most joyful manner by presenting Professor Hawking as a man who's physically the yin to that films uber - athlete's (tightrope walker Phillipe Petit) yang and yet a kindred spirit in terms of sheer zest for life and experience.

Perhaps it's the embers flying about for no apparent reason, the sinister Single White Female vibe given off by the elephant in the background, the tightrope walker up above appearing out of thin air or the humourous direction of Robert Pattinson's eyesight.

The film chronicled the story of Philippe Petit, a French tightrope walker who in 1974 walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high - wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, «the artistic crime of the century.»

French tightrope walker Petit's daredevil traverse of the twin towers — carried out without permission — was brought to the attention of filmgoers in James Marsh's award - winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire.

It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length.

Rachel Lyon navigates a spectrum of loyalty and betrayal like a tightrope - walker, with all of the attendant suspense.

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.»

Over the centuries, funambulists — or tightrope walkers, ropewalkers, or equilibrists — have performed some of the most amazing feats of daring; such as taking the audience's breath away numerous times by walking across Niagara Falls.

In this installment, Isabel has to deal with an accusation by Christopher Dove of plagiarism in the Review of Applied Ethics, has to break the news of her engagement to Jamie to her prickly niece, Cat, is coerced into mediating with the father of Minty Auchterlonie's baby, meets Cats new boyfriend (a tightrope walker), engages a professional to capture Brother Fox and has lunch (a salad) with Professor Lettuce.

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 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.

This youth looks like a tightrope walker as he tries to jump a puddle in front of 376 Richmond Terrace.

«High in the Caucasian mountains, beneath a canopy of blazing blue sky, a tightrope walker inches between two peaks.

Published to document a project by the Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva that consists of the film Tightrope and the series of performances On the Benefits of Pyramids in Cultural Education, Strengthening of National Consciousness, and the Formation of Moral and Ethical Guideposts, this book is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul Tightrope and the series of performances On the Benefits of Pyramids in Cultural Education, Strengthening of National Consciousness, and the Formation of Moral and Ethical Guideposts, this book is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov.

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.

All of the major subjects and periods in Picasso's oeuvre reappear in the exhibition in the from of artist's reception of them: the Blue Period and the associated themes of loneliness, despair, and poverty, but also more lively motifs from the Rose Period, such as the world of the circus, Harlequin, or tightrope walkers.

The statue, «Tightrope Walker» by Kees Verkade, is dedicated to General William J. Donovan, one of the founders of our country's intelligence services.