Sentences with phrase «precarious lines»

The controversy highlights the biggest misconception around Grand Theft Auto, and underscores one of the most precarious lines in popular culture: the difference between presentation and endorsement.

The script captures the courage and nuance it took for them to tread the precarious line between respectful distance and graphic detail in order to get and tell the story.

She is the district's representative as it walks a precarious line between honoring the school's autonomy while protecting its own promise of a successful school to a community scarred by the 2006 closure.

He treads a precarious line between the considered, the amusing and the downright annoying.

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Despite winning a share of the UK's 55 bln pound high - speed rail line, the distressed construction company's situation is precarious.

It's full of jeans and sweaters and going - out dresses — plus a handful of extremely gorgeous, extremely precarious heels, including a pair from the line Rihanna designed for Manolo Blahnik in 2016.

We are so grateful to have such strong leaders as Assemblymen Tedisco and McLaughlin who recognize the precarious state of our aging underground and forgotten infrastructure, and who understand how we can incorporate cost effective, new technologies — such as UV cured - in - place pipe lining — to provide New Yorkers with safe solutions to what is possibly the greatest challenge to our life - sustaining underground infrastructure that we have seen in generations,» said Mara Killburn, Managing Member, Precision Trenchless.

A report commissioned by the United Way shows that 45 percent of Ulster County households are living in precarious financial straits — either below the federal poverty line, or not making enough to pay for basic needs like food, housing and child care.

Sequencing the genome of the Denisovans, a mysterious group of prehistoric hominins, suggests that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans seems to have been common, rather than the rarity previously assumed — which further drives home the idea that we are the sole survivors of a precarious evolutionary process, rather than the end of a neat line of descent.

I feel like this outfit straddled the line between Willy Wonka - ville ridiculous and pretty cool, and it was the black cardigan that played the biggest role in keeping it in that precarious balance.

Dating is a precarious thing, as some people have dates lined up for weeks to come, while others go months, maybe even years without ever finding someone that they'd like to spend more than 10 minutes with, let alone a whole evening.

Although dating while living abroad can be a precarious game of wearing your heart on your sleeve, my bottom line is to never fear starting something because the end is uncertain.

by Walter Chaw The line between love and misanthropy is thin and Todd Solondz is a cunning cartographer of that precarious divide.

His situation was as precarious as hers but he chose to tow the party line to save himself always and Elsie over and over chose to the right thing at much risk.

I personally use the Manfrotto line of tripods for my Sony a7II camera and I've been able to set it up in some precarious places.

Originally built in the 19th century, the rail line has been updated and modified via a series of tunnels that hug the Riviera's coastline, affording fantastic views as we go and as well as delivering you right into the centre of the villages from which coaches are most definitely banned, if the hairpin journey along the precarious cliff tops weren't enough to put them off.

Olsen has painted the subtle tones of the deserts in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the precarious balance of life and death surrounding Central Australia's Lake Eyre, and South Australia's Coorong National Park where he explored the complex inhabitants of the wetlands and the microscopic ecological drama beneath the water line.

Watch out for the precarious routes that line the train tracks themselves — these narrow ladders and staircases may be the key to your success or failure.

Lines have been crossed and we now find ourselves in the precarious situation where much of the gaming press are no longer impartial when it comes to coverage, and this has been notable with the indie scene.

Precarious architectures, racetracks, open voids, loosened shoelaces, and taut anchor lines resolve on the horizon of the canvas, only to dissolve and morph into other entities altogether.

The strict, not to say limiting, structure of Cubism gave de Kooning's indomitable line and precarious paint - handling a classical armature without which they would have collapsed.

To exist despite the alienating and antagonizing nature of their surrounding environment — as if a precarious and utterly temporary agreement was struck between them and the molecular components of paint and canvas, lines and colors, even the space itself, threaten to engulf them,» says David.

Her participation in the project continues an existing line of research, and is negotiated on terms that recognize and capitalize on precarious working conditions for artists.

With the screen as a space and fingertips as the action, Jefford's idea of «surface as a line of flight» comes in this «precarious vehicle for closeness, knowledge, aspiration and red herrings».

The only safe place to be is with the lines of your own country, albeit a hollow and precarious terrain, as if citizens within these sectors could fall through to the other side of the world's metal cage in an instant.

Many women who work full - time for low wages remain below the poverty line, and many women who can not access affordable and adequate childcare are forced into part - time and precarious employment.

A line of cases out of Ontario has begun to award more than just replacement value and incurred costs to owners of wrongfully injured or killed pets — and it may be setting a precarious precedent.