Sentences with phrase «on a tightrope in»

My approach is not a stock - picking circus in which we simply advocate going out on a tightrope in search of high - risk growth stocks.

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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 in today's contentious geostrategic climate, such a «neutral» policy means precariously walking on a tightrope bedeviled by pitfalls and competing interests.

Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.

[Spin Cycle] Capitalizing Callaghan Shifts Into Overdrive [Newsday] Hevesi's Security Detail Twice As Large As Spitzer's [AP] Alan Overdrive [NYP] Aide's «Squad» Car Ride [NYDN] Hevesi Smooches Up Pol Pal [NYP] Thanks to Hevesi, Democrats Face Political Tightrope [NYS] Pataki Picks Ex-Prosecutor to Weigh In on Hevesi Case [NYT] Hevesi: I'd Quit Over Ax [NYP]

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.

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.

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.

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.

That the ambiguity of his stance was ultimately not sustainable is not lost on Tavernier, whose position as an artist in France has been the same kind of deliberate tightrope walk.

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.

In Hope on a Tightrope, an eloquent collection of both audio (on CD) and printed meditations, West indirectly challenges Obama to prove that the «Audacity of Hope» is more than a campaign slogan, asking, «What price are you willing to pay?»

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.

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!)

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.

Pablo Larrain and Natalie Portman engage in a delicate waltz here, walking a tightrope of tone that suggests the archness required of a woman who had the mantle of the American ideal thrust upon her, only to see the American real come crashing down on her in a moment of terrible violence.

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.

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.

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.

A very tightrope to walk on, but Reynolds is a very underrated actor who currently has some of the best range in the business.

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.

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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.

There's a tightrope act going on in the early part of the movie as the script tries to make these guys likeable but still throw in enough uncomfortable moments for low humor.

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.

Generation on a Tightrope reviews a large amount of survey data to track changes in attitudes of college students over time.

Tightrope Books was established in 2005 to bring a fresh take on Canadian literature by juxtaposing new and established writers, genres, and cultures to build an inclusive list that represents the vitality of current Canadian literature.

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

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.

... 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.

We utilize the Tightrope CCL procedure to get your pet back on all fours in no time.

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.

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.

At times you will be asked to precisely control Mario as he tiptoes on a giant ball across a world full of holes (in an obvious tip of the hat to the Monkeyball franchise), or walks a narrow tightrope path without falling off into a literal black hole of oblivion.

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.

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.

Elias Sime, Tightrope: Evolution (1), 2017, Reclaimed electronic components and wire on panel, 110 x 166 1/4 in.

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.

Completing the show is «Tightrope Walker» where a miniscule figure hand - carved in wood balances precariously, defying gravity, on a thin wire holding a pole.

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.

ELIAS SIME Tightrope: Symbolism and Confusion 2017 Reclaimed electronic components on panel 63 3/8 x 157 3/8 in.

ELIAS SIME Tightrope: Impulsive Juggernaut of Progress 2017 Reclaimed electronic components on panel 64 1/2 x 63 1/2 in.

In A Short Trip a tree - dwelling possum traverses the painting's edges, like a tightrope walker on a single arching branch.

Flanken by the Caucasus Mountains on the highest plateau in Dagestan, the village of Tsovkra - 1 has parlayed the perils of its topography into a peculiar claim to fame: that every able - bodied member of its roughly four - hundred - person population can walk a tightrope.