Sentences with phrase «tightrope between»

One of the biggest challenges about work with teens is walking the tightrope between meeting the parents» needs, expectations, and goals and doing the same for the teen.

A certified claims examiner resume writer understands how to walk the tightrope between presentation and functionality.

You have to tread the tightrope between truthfully expressing why you are leaving the company (without really revealing the whole truth) but still sounding very cordial and professional.

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

Insurance defense lawyers often walk the tightrope between the competing interests of those that fund the litigation and those that are actively involved in it.

Through this argument, one can see that India is walking a tightrope between the twin challenges of ending energy poverty for its 400 million citizens living without electricity access while balancing the needs of the hundreds of millions more who will be impacted by a changing climate.

According to Román, Puerto Rico must navigate a tightrope between long - term and short - term development while keeping rates at an affordable level.

They gave up trying to walk the tightrope between refusing data to potential critics, while giving data to fellow travellers.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

While this tightrope between abstraction and figuration is still being walked in this latest body of work, much of the angst evident in some of her earlier paintings seems replaced by a revelation of freedom and confidence — in herself and in her practice of painting.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.

In your painting, you walk the tightrope between the image and the thought.

«And I was fascinated to hear the artist's own description of his work as walking a tightrope between the hard textures of the urban built environment and something which leans towards the more poetic.»

Ms. Khedoori's quietly imposing art navigates a tightrope between different media, and between different emotions, too.

In such pieces Lavier, like Duchamp before him, walks the tightrope between art and nonart.

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

Anand Radhakrishnan talks about treading the tightrope between leaning towards populist measures and maintaining fiscal prudence post the Union Budget 2018 - 19 — The Economic Times 2nd February, 2018

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

... 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.

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.

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 true story recounts the daring feat of a spirited young Frenchman who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974.

Seats walk a tightrope between comfort and supportive bolstering — at least for someone my size, though I didn't hear any seating position complaints from my fellow reviewers.

As the AMG lineup proliferates, company executives admit they walk a tightrope between the desire for growth and the need to retain AMG's exclusivity.

For nearly four decades, the BMW 5 - Series has walked the tightrope between luxury and sport, satisfying the demands of both buttoned - up executives and driving purists.

Phoenix has marshalled a range of resources to successfully walk the tightrope between student support and academic rigor.

Funny, and at times inventive, Peyton Reed's film deftly walked the tightrope between spoof and genre mash - up, combining heist films with Marvel, a brand that wrote and then rewrote the playbook of superhero movies.

: The enduring appeal of «Fright Night» comes from how nimbly writer - director Tom Holland, along with music supervisor David Chackler, walked the tightrope between humor and horror, an effectiveness that its song album exemplified right off the bat with the J. Geils Band's spooky - ooky title track.

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.

by Walter Chaw It's at the forefront of one's mind during Hellboy II: The Golden Army (hereafter Hellboy II), Guillermo Del Toro's brilliant dance along an ephemeral tightrope between pop and Puccini, that David Cronenberg and Howard Shore recently converted their remake of The Fly into a full - fledged opera: I can see the same thing happening with a lot of Del Toro's pictures.

Bong does manage to traverse this tonal tightrope between the serious and the absurd, and the climax of the film crackles with energy during the final confrontation between man and monster.

Patrick Ness adapts his 2011 children's novel in A Monster Calls, a drama that walks a tightrope between intimate indie character study and effects - laden fantasy film.

For the part of Ryno, Breillat said she needed a «young Alain Delon» (although Fu'ad Aït Aatto might evoke a young Mick Jagger for some viewers).1 Similarly, the participation of Michael Lonsdale, Yolande Moreau and Claude Sarraute brings both humour and credibility to the elders who walk a tightrope between bourgeois complacency and post-carnal world weariness.

No movie has walked the tightrope between mockery and genuine affection so deftly.

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.

Circus freaks, puppets and soaring songs collide in a new adaptation that deftly walks a tightrope between romantic and grotesque

Walking a tightrope between the comedic and the mundane, Gillespie brings a unique tonality to his projects across all filmed media.

It's a tightrope between comedy and sadness and there are twists you don't expect.»

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.

Andrews was one of Preminger's favorite actors for that ability to walk the tightrope between American forthrightness and over-the-edge darkness.

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.

Robert Woodfield (Eric Roberts) is a lawyer who grew up walking a tightrope between both sides of the law; after the death of his parents, he was raised by Charlie Mason (Dean Stockwell), a union representative who wants to do the right thing for his men, but who also has one foot in organized crime.

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.

Walking a tightrope between deference and disrespect, James Franco has made his most ambitious work to date with «The Disaster Artist», a seriocomic exploration inside the mind of writer - director - cultural sensation Tommy Wiseau.

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

Such angels, walking that tightrope between childhood and adulthood.

Or, thanks to a semi-full-time chemotherapy regimen, walking a constant gastrointestinal tightrope between constipation and diarrhea.

In a statement published online in Pediatrics, the organization walked a tightrope between strongly discouraging recreational marijuana use among teenagers while acknowledging that medical applications, including in young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might help.

Farmers are walking a tightrope between reaping the benefits of genetically modified crops and getting it wrong and losing all their advantages.

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.