Sentences with phrase «to walk a tightrope»

Dinklage's Trask is a nice departure as a villain for how noticeably not crazy he is, and the same can be said for Lawrence, who walks the tightrope between good and bad with care.

There's an investing circus too — carnival barker pundits touting their stock picks, the investment strategists looking into their crystal balls to foretell the market's future, analysts walking the tightrope of making bold calls and hedging them at the same time — and it's in town every day.

But using them is often like walking a tightrope.

From the script, Tom did a phenomenal job walking the tightrope on this movie.

For the part of Ryno, Breillat said she needed a «young Alain Delon» (although Fu'ad Aït Aatto might evoke a young Mick Jagger for some viewers).1 Similarly, the participation of Michael Lonsdale, Yolande Moreau and Claude Sarraute brings both humour and credibility to the elders who walk a tightrope between bourgeois complacency and post-carnal world weariness.

I'm not sure exactly whose fault this is, but Sydney did a fine job walking this tightrope in Kiss Me Kate, another musical written by Cole Porter that plays with the conflict between performance and reality.

In 2004 Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chairman who was then still a governor, told his fellow governors that they must walk a tightrope when asked about the potential of a bubble in America's housing market.

He's a man walking a tightrope across the Grand Canyon on a windy day.

Anyone who has ever changed occupations knows the stress level is right up there with walking a tightrope over the Grand Canyon.

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

Meryl Streep, as the paper's publisher Katharine Graham, revealed how the first female in the job walked the tightrope between figurehead and powerhouse.

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

In his unsteady position, Gentleman Walking a Tightrope depicts the challenging balancing act that confronts the subject, referencing the West's impact on Africa, and the precarious position he faces in navigating our social and political landscape.

You're Next often walks the tightrope between humor and chills, but there are a few moments when it stumbles in that line - straddling.

The word for it is «tragedy,» but the common American commitment to the principle that all human beings are entitled to a franchise makes walking the tightrope — and continuing to have hope — possible for an atheist,

Ran around like a headless chicken, but that was his downfall — an early yellow card meant that he was walking a tightrope for the rest of the game.

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.

To talk of the plot of Sucker Punch walks a tightrope balance on giving away too much.

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.

Phoenix has marshalled a range of resources to successfully walk the tightrope between student support and academic rigor.

Arthur Fellig, called Weegee (Austrian / American, 1899 — 1968) Man Walking a Tightrope (Multiple Exposure), 1950s.

Whether walking this tightrope succeeds or fails, only the future can tell.

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.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.

Balanced approach: walking a tightrope There is growing consensus amongst countries that one should maintain some balance in their regulation.

He holds nine Guinness World Records and was the first person to walk a tightrope directly over the raging waters of Niagara Falls.

He says that if you can't hold your body weight for at least 30 minutes hundreds of feet off the ground you have no business walking the tightrope.

Part of the problem is that Chinese policy - makers are already walking a tightrope.

So how do the world's best relationship builders walk this tightrope?

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.

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

Our argument is that atheism can't walk this tightrope.

We are continuously walking the tightrope of trying to help him make good choices and trying to keep him safe and alive.

Analogy walks a tightrope between total dissimilarity and total similarity.

Here the GOP walks a tightrope: moderation is necessary to expand the party coalition, but too much moderation undercuts the party's base.

He broke a 3rd and 20 outside with speed and walked a tightrope down the sideline for 26 yards, and picked up another 3rd and 10 off left tackle for a 1st down inside a minute before halftime.

Manchester United legend - turned - pundit Gary Neville believes Antonio Conte could soon be walking a tightrope at Stamford Bridge, should he fail to bring David Luiz back into the starting lineup.

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

First, they are political, and can therefore protect, warn and be a safety net for a Minister walking the tightrope of Ministerial office.

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

Walsh has spent a career walking a tightrope between organized parties.

As a government agency that contains research laboratories but also distributes funding to other institutions, the NIH walks a tightrope between maintaining the quality of its in - house research and appearing unbiased in grants to outside researchers and universities.

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

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 help.

«The cancer cell walks a tightrope,» says William Kaelin, a molecular oncologist at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

Those bacteria that require iron walk a tightrope.

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