Sentences with phrase «on a tightrope with»

Earned himself 85 minutes on a tightrope with a needless booking for fouling Rakitic but he dealt well with the pressure and kept a close eye on Messi.

Ether for Authors today focuses on that issue in our Discussion section: Are Publishers on a Tightrope with Author Solutions?

Not exact matches

Geoff Blaber, vice president of research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that by leading off the conference with a focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»

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.»

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

But Ramirez could hit enough to make up the difference and then some, and there's always a tightrope to walk with shortstops on the other side of 35.

These days I feel as though I'm walking on a tightrope, with a crowd of ravenous faux robotic nerds on one side and a gaggle of sentimental antiquarians on the other.

Unless you are doing your workouts on a tightrope, while watching the Blair Witch Project, we are really only dealing with a clenched hand causing the other to do the same.

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).

The Post takes up all the current crises head on, as to what comprises national security, the dangers of conflating the government with the nation, the role of the press and, even the tightrope journalists walk in their friendships with powers - that - be.

The tale of French acrobat Philippe Petit's 1974 attempt to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers already formed the basis of an Oscar - winning documentary, Man on Wire, so we assume Zemeckis has a strong shot with this fictionalized retelling featuring a heavily accented Gordon - Levitt.

Chaplin conjures up an array of comedic moments that are both ingenious and hilarious; from the Tramp's escape from the police in a hall of mirrors funhouse, to a dazzling and dangerous tightrope act performed by the Tramp without a safety harness (but with the attention of several monkeys who are running loose in the circus and decide to join him on the tightrope!)

Day - Lewis embodies the tightrope line his mood rests on with a flexibility that also reveals an interconnection between these two extremes.

Our «Buffy in Japan» sales pitch mixed with high quality art / story, good word of mouth, YALSA recognition, and our ability to balance on a shaky tightrope between American comics and manga is working for us.

This unprecedented level of competition, combined with the rising costs of doing business, a drastic shift in consumer demographics and the general limitations that come with operating a small retail business, have put many pet store owners and operators on a tightrope, where one false move could be fatal to their businesses.

Both techniques, the TPLO and the Tightrope, can be used on most dogs with excellent results.

Though you'll lock up your money with the card, it will ensure that you don't get in over your head — and you'll start building your financial skills so that you won't make missteps when you start walking on the credit tightrope without a similar financial net.

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.

He's uninterested in forcing viewers to engage with hot topics or historicity; if an exhibition is a circus, he refuses to balance on the tightrope.

Comprising 67 paintings by 48 artists living and dead, arranged in groupings, Tightrope Walk is a kind of visual essay, with each chapter denoted by a pithy observation printed high on the walls.

He draws in white wax crayon on paper covered with wet chalkboard gray paint — a favorite wet - dry technique — to creating wobbly spirals, tumbling figure eights and lasso - y loops that suggest an artist working on a tightrope.

She is like an artist on a tightrope, walking forward within this with such precision that it is both dangerous and exciting.

So Ms. Lévy pulls out the stops, bringing a staff of 11 (six from New York, three from her London gallery and two from her Geneva gallery) for a week; enlisting an architect, painter and lighting designer for her booth; entertaining clients with a major event — this year a circus - themed party created by a tightrope acrobat with «dinner under the big top»; even insisting on a specific brand of Swiss chocolate in the booth (Villars).

If taste changes, Calder might be caught out of favour, with only the slenderest of reasons for retaining our engagement: on a «tightrope», perhaps.