Sentences with phrase «on a tightrope between»

While his French accent was a little shaky, his footwork sure wasn't, and the photorealistic scenes we saw of him walking on a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers may induce vertigo in some viewers.

... We are continuing to balance on the tightrope between investment opportunity and risk aversion, taking advantage of the most compelling opportunities while maintaining a very cautious posture in an environment where most securities are priced for perfection and then some.

Have you ever seen those pictures or videos of people walking on a tightrope between two very tall buildings?

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More often than not, maintaining it is a balancing act between credit and cash on hand, and it's a tricky tightrope to walk.

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.»

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

The nature of our future online lives will depend on answering this question, on how we walk the tightrope between total security and innovation - friendly openness.

It's catharsis on steroids, walking the tightrope between FYI and TMI.

Director Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.

Gleeson, on the other hand, has a harder circle to square, as both antagonist and romantic lead, and to his credit, he stays on the tightrope, even switching between both in one scene as he and Peter feign friendship for each other to appease Bea, only to be resume their fight every time she leaves the room.

Meanwhile, Simon Chinn and James Marsh were surprise winners of the best documentary award for Man On Wire, their acclaimed film following tightrope artist Philippe Petit's hair - raising trip between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on a tightropOn Wire, their acclaimed film following tightrope artist Philippe Petit's hair - raising trip between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on a tightropon a tightrope.

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.

Coraline — Focus Features, 100 mins — Henry Selick's terrifying animated 3D feature focuses on a little girl (voiced Dakota Fanning) who walks a tightrope between reality where her parents pay no attention to her and a parallel fantasy world where her parents are doting but dowright deceitful and dangerous.

It has been six years now since James Marsh recounted Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in his documentary Man on Wire.

In 2008, James Marsh's Man on Wire, a recounting of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, was one of the most talked about documentaries.

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.

Robert Zemeckis's 3D take on Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers takes truth and turns it into a cartoon

That film would be «Man On Wire,» James Marsh's crisp, witty and ultimately very moving documentary about Philippe Petit, the charismatic French performance artist who in 1974 committed the so - called «artistic crime of the century» — an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the New York's World Trade Center.

Though the story of Philippe Petit's daring tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers was already told (and told well) in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man On Wire, the feat is getting a big, flashy update this year, courtesy of Robert Zemeckis» The Walk.

Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.

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

Like its aerialist hero, this saga of the tightrope walk between the Twin Towers overcomes many potential disasters on its way to triumph

Official Premise: Poignant, romantic and mesmerizing, writer / director Woody Allen's latest masterpiece centers around Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), a former New York socialite teetering on an emotional tightrope, balancing between her troubled east coast past and a fresh start in San Francisco.

The new IMAX trailer for The Walk is basically a collage of all the trailers we've seen so far that emphasizes how batshit crazy and terrifying it would be to even stand near the edge of a World Trade Tower, let alone walk between the towers on a tightrope.

The Twin Towers loom in the clouds, as if dreamt up by French daredevil Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, illegally danced between them on a tightrope.

On an early, gray morning in August 1974, tightrope - walker Philippe Petit stepped out into an impossible void, the space between the Twin Towers, and danced for an hour.

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.

As FHA continues to walk a policy tightrope between reducing risks and serving homebuyers and homeowners depending on its mortgage loan programs, the agency's latest request for funding cites the HECM loans as a potential casualty if appropriate funding is not provided during the 2011 fiscal year.

Can we keep walking the tightrope between making art and keeping the lights on when both ends have seemingly been set on fire?

The works on view are part of an ongoing series entitled «Tightrope,» which refers to the contemporary balancing act between technology and tradition, humanity and the environment.

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.

The tightrope you walk is fixed between Law Society regulations on one side and maintaining good professional relations on the other side.

There is a really, I think what you're talking about too, I sat on a diversity panel presentation for our local Louisville bar association not too long ago and one of my co-panel members who was a man from a local corporation stood up and said that he does trainings in this area and he said, «I have that people, particularly men who come to my trainings look at, I have them list all the male characteristics they can think of and all the «female characteristics» that they can think of and then I draw this line down the middle and I say women at work have to walk down this narrow line of not being too masculine and not being too feminine and finding that balance between the two and that's a difficult tightrope to walk sometimes.»

You miss - stepped on the fine tightrope between confident and over-confident, between perfect for the job and full - of - yourself.