Sentences with phrase «on tightropes»

Twitter is walking on a tightrope here.

He even hired the world - famous Wallendas to drink the improved coffee on a tightrope strung over the streets of Detroit.

This team won't be on a tightrope and Gilling believes Gelo Ball will have some 50 - point games as the offensive focal point.

«Look at the acrobat at the circus who walks on a tightrope high above the ground, who captures everyone's attention.

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.

Test your balance on a tightrope, take a closer look at the ornate costumes worn by performers and squeeze into an impossibly tiny clown car.

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

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.

Dr Thekla Morgenroth, post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the paper said: «When people imagine a risk - taker, they might picture someone risking their fortune at a high - stakes poker game, an ambitious CEO, or someone crossing the Grand Canyon on a tightrope — but chances are that the person they picture will be a man.

Walk the line: Pretend you're on a tightrope.

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).

Although it lacks the fire and energy of Kazan's masterpieces, Man on a Tightrope is still an expertly crafted and wholly engaging film.

Man on a Tightrope could have easily become cliché ridden propagandistic tripe but Kazan has crafted it into something of substance.

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 tightrope.

Obviously this is an animated film so directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon do have the leeway of creating a rather improbable plot, but little children may too realize that giraffes and hippopotamuses can not defy gravity and balance on a tightrope 50 feet (or more) above the ground.

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?»

So what we are talking about is hope on a tightrope.

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!)

Lars is finally a movie that seems uneasily wobbly on its tightrope, and it leaves you wishing you were watching the movie Gosling so gamely commits himself to.

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.

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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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.

Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student by Arthur Levine and Diane R. Dean Jossey - Bass, 2012, $ 40; 256 pages.

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

Land Rover design boss Gerry McGovern is thus walking on a tightrope.

Starkey forced herself toward the restaurant, moving on legs that were suddenly weak, as if she'd found herself on a tightrope and the only way off was that singular door.

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

... 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.

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.

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

If you have unpaid debt, it can feel like you are walking on a tightrope without a safety net.

Does your debt make you feel like you are walking on a tightrope without a safety net?

This dog can walk on a tightrope, the American Eskimo has captured the hearts of humans.

«So it turns out the dog on the tightrope was a double for Matisse on #BGT?!

Originally trained to walk on a tightrope, the American Eskimo has captured the hearts of humans.

You may feel like you're walking on a tightrope, teetering on the edge of guilt for the idea of incarcerating your dog, but still wondering about how crating can help jump start and positively influence your puppy's obedience for life.

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.

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.

Ernesto Neto's recent major solo exhibitions include Ernesto Neto, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2016; Enresto Neto, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark 2016; The Jaguar and the Boa, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, 2015; Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin ~ Aru Kuxipa Sacred Secret, TBA21 — Augarten, Vienna, Austria, 2015; Haux Haux, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remanagen, Germany, 2015; Ernesto Neto, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 2015; Ernesto Neto: The body that carries me, Guggenheim, Bilbao 2014; O ABRIGO E O TERRENO: Arte e sociedade no Brasil, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013; Fecundation, Loucura é parte da vida / Madness is part of life, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, 2012; Cuddle on the Tightrope, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

Thankfully, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto created his piece, Kink, for some spirited circus play through his «Cuddle on the Tightrope» sculpture, now on display at the Nasher Sculpture Center through September 9, 2012.

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.

Recent solo exhibitions include Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen, Leopoldina Station, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 and Cuddle on the Tightrope at the Sculpture Center of Nasher in Dallas, USA, 2012.

: Cuddle on the Tightrope, Dallas 2012 Center for Contemporary Art Cincinnati (Ed.)

Ernesto NETO Kink 2012 Aluminum, crocheted polyester and polypropylene rope, polypropylene balls, air, wood, felt, and rubber 171 x 800 x 164 inches; 434.3 x 2032 x 416.6 cm installed Installation view Ernesto Neto: Cuddle on the Tightrope, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2012

Paul R. Ehrlich, co-author of Humanity on a Tightrope