Sentences with phrase «tightrope walk over»

The first woman to tightrope walk over Niagara Falls was circus performer Maria Spelterini who, reportedly, once crossed while her hands and feet were manacled.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

This summer, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on allowing world - renowned daredevil Nik Wallenda to perform a tightrope walk over the falls, an event that would almost surely attract tens of thousands of people and potentially provide an economic boost to the area.

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Seventh Day Adventists have for over 100 years walked the tightrope between sect and cult.

Nik Wallenda became the first man to walk right over Niagara Falls Friday night, a 30 - minute tightrope televised live on ABC News.

Walking an acting tightrope as Harry, he nevertheless gives a carefully modulated performance which at first has one fearful that his character will be played way over the top.

«And with this pencil stroke, my fate was sealed,» the narration tells us, over images of Petit drawing a line between the towers as depicted in a magazine ad that he peruses while waiting to see a doctor — as if we couldn't figure out why that moment is important, in a movie about a guy who tightrope - walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Spike Jonze) Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has walked a tightrope without falling over.

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.

We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year, like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.

Portraying mental illness on screen is a tricky tightrope to walk, one that can easily tip over into the garish or fail to register the needed pathos.

As the prominent losers, Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, and David Lyons are crisply engaging, keenly aware of the delicate tonal tightrope they must walk so as to prevent themselves from tumbling over into the valley of inadvertent camp and self - parody.

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.

Parents the world over have to walk the tightrope of whether to discipline their children, since the act of punishing them by denying them something is just as likely to exacerbate undesired behaviour as to correct it.

This course will provide the trainer with the ability to teach cats «fun» behaviors, such as roll over, tightrope walk, hoop jumping, and more.

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.

Once at its banks, go to the tightrope nearby and walk over it to the rock formation which you have to climb to access the vantage point.

With over a decade's worth of games behind it, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate walks this same tightrope.

We walk a tightrope over a minefield trying to find jurors who can be truly open - minded; people who will open up their hearts and minds to hear our client's case.