Sentences with phrase «time tightrope walking»

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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.

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.

Undeniably one of the greatest films of the 1980s and indeed, of all time, Back to the Future has endured so well because it walks that fine tightrope of managing to appeal to just about everyone...

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.

It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length.

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.

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.

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.