Sentences with phrase «tightrope walking in»

Adrenaline junkies can also try flying fox, rock climbing, trekking, and tightrope walking in Kalibiru National Park.

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

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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.

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.

More funding will bring more scrutiny, and Patreon will have the tough job of walking the free - speech - without - filth tightrope in codifying what exactly is allowed and enforcing those rules.

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.

But you don't have to walk a tightrope, climb Mount Everest or cure polio to employ this mindset in your own life.

In the end, OPEC and Russia are walking a tightrope.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

It is difficult to keep from wondering whether Ting, Wenzao and other Protestant leaders are walking a tightrope between the still religiously skeptical communist government and the fundamentalists both in the underground church and among intrusive foreign Christian observers who deeply resent any hint of accommodation with Chinese communism.

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

We've been walking the high tightrope thinking we've been trusting The All in All.

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.

Francis Coquelin has looked ropey in his last couple of games, and in a big match like this he can't afford to be walking a tightrope when it comes to bookings.

Costa, who is known to have a combustible personality and has walked the disciplinary tightrope for the Blues in a number of games so far this season, has scored five goals for Chelsea in the Premier League in their opening six games.

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.

But in today's contentious geostrategic climate, such a «neutral» policy means precariously walking on a tightrope bedeviled by pitfalls and competing interests.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman in Congress, is walking a tightrope because of her support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

It would have been a tightrope walk that would require LBJ like skill to reach a bipartisan 50 % votes in the house.

David Cameron walked a delicate diplomatic tightrope today, after he issued guarded but unprecedented criticism of the way Algeria is handling the hostage crisis in its territory.

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

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

In some areas where Mr. Trump remains popular, Republican hopefuls must walk a tightrope between expressing support for him and distancing themselves from a candidate who may become toxic to the moderates and independents they need to win.

In frank and poignant prose, Elsayed recounts his tightrope walk through the U.S. immigration system and his improbable ascent into the academic stratosphere before crashing and burning.

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 helIn 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 helin 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 helin young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might help.

Stephen Fry manages to walk the tightrope of being clever and interesting while also reasonably lucid and unflustered after thirty seconds of idle chatter in an elevator, and thus we shall place him somewhere in the realms of nerd - lite.

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.

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.

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.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub draWalk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drawalk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

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.

«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.

FSR's Brian Salisbury said in his review: «I loved this film... The genius of The Loved Ones is that it knows how to use over-the-top horror elements to provide the necessary safety net for the tightrope walk between shock and entertainment.»

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.

It has been six years now since James Marsh recounted Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in his documentary Man on Wire.

In 2008, James Marsh's Man on Wire, a recounting of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, was one of the most talked about documentaries.

The film's trailer hints that film will be a dark satire, lush period film and a complex character study of Zama's paranoia - fueled descent, all mixed up into one, which is what is to be expected of the Argentinian director who has perfected walking a tightrope in terms of tone and genre in her not - always - easy to categorize body of work.

Jackie gathers with others, including her equally distraught brother - in - law Bobby Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), clearly in shock, vulnerable, and walking a nervous tightrope of control.

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 being.

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.

Last year, Gordon - Levitt played tightrope master Philippe Petit in «The Walk», complete with a strong French accent.

At the red carpet team's request, the camera went in for a tight shot of Theron's sheer gown — not a porn star outfit, like a lot of red carpet getups, but a pretty decent tightrope walk between class and naughtiness, the haute couture equivalent of a Johnny Carson double - entendre — then moved the camera from head to toe like the Big Bad Wolf ogling Red Hot Riding Hood.

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.

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

That film would be «Man On Wire,» James Marsh's crisp, witty and ultimately very moving documentary about Philippe Petit, the charismatic French performance artist who in 1974 committed the so - called «artistic crime of the century» — an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the New York's World Trade Center.

It's understood in mobsterland that Emma is the property of rum - running gangster Albert White (an authentically brutal Robert Glenister), and Joe Coughlin is walking a tightrope by being seen around town with her.

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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.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.