Sentences with phrase «tightrope walking as»

The tightrope she walks as Vi's eldest daughter Barb may be the most challenging of her entire career, so it's fitting that the result may be her bravest performance.

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That will be a tricky tightrope to walk, as user data is Facebook's bread and butter.

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

Instead, like many women, she was asked to walk a tightrope — one that had as much to do with her personality as her investing ability.

The shifts in Airbnb's messaging show the tightrope the company is walking as it tries to expand its business in a tricky regulatory environment.

Look at the balancing act at Lee, as CEO Mary Junck and CFO Carl Schmidt have walked tightrope after tightrope of restructuring, in an amazing attempt to avoid falling into the net of bankruptcy.

It's not just the amount of information Brecher processes that qualifies her as a supertasker, it's the emotional tightrope she successfully walks while doing so.

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

The elected representatives have to walk a tightrope taking decisions so as to satisfy the maximum number of people in their constituencies.

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.

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.

It seems he is walking a political tightrope so as to retain his IPCC position.

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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.

The Post takes up all the current crises head on, as to what comprises national security, the dangers of conflating the government with the nation, the role of the press and, even the tightrope journalists walk in their friendships with powers - that - be.

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.

That the ambiguity of his stance was ultimately not sustainable is not lost on Tavernier, whose position as an artist in France has been the same kind of deliberate tightrope walk.

Played extremely straight by Hutton and with a satisfyingly reserved level of camp by Boyle and Oliver Platt (as a corporate dirtbag), The Temp walks the tightrope of pointed satire for a delirious stretch before being swallowed whole by the great beast known as Faye Dunaway (chewing scenery) and the twisty genre formulas of its conclusion.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of beinAs in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of beinas triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

«Once there were two towers side by side,» Gyllenhaal begins as the colored line drawings come to life and we're introduced to Petit, who had previously astonished Paris by tightrope walking between the steeples of Notre Dame.

Many critics do not consider this as excellent as «City Lights» or «Modern Times», but there's still plenty to enjoy here, especially the tightrope walking finale.

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 - parodAs 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 - parodas to prevent themselves from tumbling over into the valley of inadvertent camp and self - parody.

Any filmmaker attempting to make a mad - as - hell dramedy out of the tragically unhilarious 2008 economic collapse walks a precarious tightrope.

Kaufman's script must walk a tricky tightrope, as his main character is more than a bit of a cad who must be seen as pitiable if he is not entirely sympathetic.

As Newtown, Conn., administrators are learning, school leaders walk a delicate tightrope in helping their schools find «a new normal» in the wake of a tragedy.

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.

As she walks that fine line, Mac walks another tightrope as welAs she walks that fine line, Mac walks another tightrope as welas well.

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.

Though tightrope walking was not considered a competitive sport (a la Olympics - worthy), it was nonetheless respected as a special skill.

As authors, particularly you romance authors out there, you are forced to walk a dangerously thin tightrope when it comes to writing these scenes.

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.

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 yeaAs 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 yeaas a potential casualty if appropriate funding is not provided during the 2011 fiscal year.

Such unexpected events would be enough to derail a person walking a tightrope and cause them to plummet, either by forcing them to incur credit card debt or even something as drastic as declaring bankruptcy.

When you're in a situation where you're walking a tightrope each and every month, your mission should be to maximize the gap between your income and your expenditures as quickly as possible.

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

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.

Only a few years out of RISD, the 31 - year - old painter Ted Gahl performs a captivating tightrope - walk between abstraction and figuration, creating canvases that seem to harness stylistic elements of artists as diverse as de Kooning, Diebenkorn, El Greco, and Matisse.

Nietzsche's vision of the creator as a tightrope - walking acrobat seems a particularly apt description of British abstract painter Fiona Rae.

The title, Tightrope Walk, is a quotation from a conversation between Francis Bacon and David Sylvester in which the artist explained his work as «a kind of tight rope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction&raqWalk, is a quotation from a conversation between Francis Bacon and David Sylvester in which the artist explained his work as «a kind of tight rope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction&raqwalk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction».

«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.»

As I said in my last post, Tony Abbott has set himself the tightrope - walking task of maintaining his government's official endorsement of mainstream climate change, while keeping his denialist base happy.

However, as shown in Blatter's quote below, in doing so, each governing body is walking a legal tightrope as it tries to avoid falling foul of EC and domestic law.

NEW YORK — The complex duties of today's corporate counsel can be such a tightrope act — carefully walking among the board, the CEO and the law — that it's surprising leotards and long balance poles aren't given as part of the employment package.

Directors and officers are walking a managerial tightrope as executive liability continues to increase annually.

Regulation is however needed to create more stability in the cryptocurrency markets (see my recent block «Regulating Cryptocurrencies: Walking the Tightrope», 12 February 2018) As soon as cryptocurrency regulations have taken a definitive path, banks and financial institutions can really start using xRapid and XRP for cross-border payments so getting the most benefits out of these Ripple solutionAs soon as cryptocurrency regulations have taken a definitive path, banks and financial institutions can really start using xRapid and XRP for cross-border payments so getting the most benefits out of these Ripple solutionas cryptocurrency regulations have taken a definitive path, banks and financial institutions can really start using xRapid and XRP for cross-border payments so getting the most benefits out of these Ripple solutions.

«People will say — «I'm so OCD», but what gets missed in all of that is that there are hundreds of thousands of people who on a daily basis lead their lives as if they're forced to walk untrained on a tightrope from one high - rise building to another on a windy day,» he says.