Sentences with phrase «tightrope walking with»

The final boss in Dragon Age: Inquisition was, for me, one of these, finishing a game about nuanced approaches to issues and political tightrope walking with a JRPG - style boss with a billion hit points and irritating area of effect attacks.

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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.

But with the majority of millennials skewing further left, while Republicans gained control of Congress and the White House, Smith — labeled «a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large» by The New York Times — needed a new way to walk the tightrope.

Geoff Blaber, vice president of research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that by leading off the conference with a focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»

Clinton has walked a tightrope of appealing to disillusioned Democrats while attempting to court moderates unhappy with the bombastic Trump.

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.

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.

But Ramirez could hit enough to make up the difference and then some, and there's always a tightrope to walk with shortstops on the other side of 35.

Members of the U.S. Congress up for re-election this year are walking a tightrope with voters.

It was about the tightrope Miliband is trying to walk between retaining relationships with the unions and changing the way they function.

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.

Lab heads with ties to companies need to carefully walk a tightrope to balance the often - opposing interests of academia and industry.

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.

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.

Familiarity with the subject — Philippe Petit's daring and illegal 1974 tightrope walk between the tops of the Twin Towers — might seem an obstacle to Zemeckis» often visceral and exciting brand of filmmaking.

With exams, a thesis, and job interviews to think about, Katie is already walking an emotional tightrope when Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt), a police detective, enters the picture.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

We spoke with the co-directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul about walking the tonal tightrope and developing characters that may not be likable.

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

Perhaps he will walk that same tightrope with the Roger Ailes movie.

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.

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.

But in McDonagh's careful hands, it's a Cirque du Soleil - like tightrope walk, gracefully balancing the harrowing with the humorous.

: 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.

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 story begins with Nanny Piggins getting herself into trouble with the law - by tightrope walking between high rise buildings to gain access to a delicious chocolate cake!

«We are trying to walk a tightrope and are concerned with the polarized conversation outside of the board or in the media,» Rodriguez said.

Into the children's Eden of art and tightrope walking — a hobby with which they become strangely enamored — slithers Vincent McAlinden, a bottom - of - the - barrel punk who often successfully hides his humanity.

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

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Tree Top Adventure Park is a tree climbing activity with rope bridges, Tarzan swings, flying skateboards, tightrope walk, and giant zip lines.

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.

It's clear that the developers completely understand that with a game like this they're walking on a tightrope covered in butter, and the helping hand they give player's is just enough.

For the most part, it gets away with walking this audacious tightrope.

It's a tightrope that we don't envy in the slightest, but Microsoft will need to walk it with confidence if it doesn't want its shiny new console to falter at the starting gates.

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

Comprising 67 paintings by 48 artists living and dead, arranged in groupings, Tightrope Walk is a kind of visual essay, with each chapter denoted by a pithy observation printed high on the walls.

She is like an artist on a tightrope, walking forward within this with such precision that it is both dangerous and exciting.

Their intent, it seems, is to hold back intent, to not yet mean anything in particular — at the same time, to walk that tightrope with pace and panache.

Tightrope Walk A large exhibition of contemporary and modern figurative art, with works by Picasso and Lucian Freud, Alex Katz and Tracey Emin.

Some of my comments and reactions so far may have become overstated and I could be walking a tightrope above a chasm of «artspeak» indulgence, but a selected example from Loesch's Merge Visible series would certainly fit well with the premises of the «Painting After Technology» exhibition at Tate Britain, and a larger survey in the future surely would have to include something from Loesch's studio.

If they go too much above that cost for too long then they'll have to compete with it so they walk a tightrope of price manipulation, through blatant illegal collusion i.e. price fixing, to make sure that there's not sufficient price motivation for anyone to invest the startup capital for large scale coal liquifaction.

Walking the tightrope of managing a short - term goal and a long - term goal is difficult, but with the right balance, you can cross safely to the other side.

It is clear that Nokia has walked a tightrope of form and function with the Lumia 820.

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.

We hope you don't think compromising with your spouse is giving in, caving in, selling out, walking a tightrope, or losing control.