Sentences with phrase «totter balance»

The teeter - totter balance between Tracy and Brooke moves Mistress America beyond clever updates of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

There is something that looks like a teeter - totter balancing feedbacks and forcings.

Not exact matches

«I ran down the runway, went up and balanced at the top, teeter - tottered in the wind and then started going backward.

The boy stopped directly above Clyde's catcher, began to totter, regained his balance with a furious flapping of his arms, and then just stood there, watching, his arms outspread, while below Clyde warmed up in preparation for a night game at Wahconah Park, home of the Pittsfield, Mass..

«This pathway is poised on a biological teeter - totter,» she concluded, «and our work highlights that it's essential to control its activity to find the appropriate balance for each disease.»

Just like the balancing act of Vincent's virtues and vices, the script also teeter - totters between positives and negatives.

He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

The balance point and the weight of the plank must be such that even a tiny dog can cause the high end of the teeter - totter to descend to the ground within a reasonable amount of time, usually about 3 seconds.

At its most basic level, the imagery of balance doesn't work — the teeter - totter with our work on one side and something else on the other as we strive to keep them in perfectly equal weight.

In many ways it is a balancing act, and you may feel like a tightrope walker, tottering along a very precarious route.