Sentences with phrase «tightrope walk across»

Dyster says Wallenda owes the city $ 25,000 in emergency services and other infrastructure requirements paid out by the city for Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls in June.

Maria Spelterini tightrope walking across Niagara Falls, courtesy of Jappalang Jean Francois Gravelet, carrying his manager Harry Colcord, courtesy of Magnus Manske Nik Wallenda tightrope walking in Chicago, courtesy of Blueag9

Fun Fact About The Number 82: On his 82nd birthday, William Ivy Baldwin tightrope walked across a canyon.

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In 2015, he walked the longest tightrope ever at the Wisconsin State Fair, and in 2012, he walked across Niagara Falls.

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.

Warming up in the bullpen, he was not even conscious of the drizzle or the cold or the young boy, his arms outspread like wings, who was tightrope - walking across the top of the outfield fence.

Though, he is most well known for becoming the first person to walk across a 1,800 - foot tightrope, stretched across Niagara Falls.

Co - writer / director Robert Zemeckis presents the story of Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope across the 130 - foot gap between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, as a romantic fable.

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

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.

From the Oscars to Peter Pan Live to someone walking across a tightrope.

Over the centuries, funambulists — or tightrope walkers, ropewalkers, or equilibrists — have performed some of the most amazing feats of daring; such as taking the audience's breath away numerous times by walking across Niagara Falls.

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.