Sentences with phrase «wire act»

For people who can't stand the thought of ever being single, online dating is like a great big safety net as they walk the high wire act of dating and relationships.

However, I love and fear the high wire act of answering questions about climate change on the spot.

In some cases, their bloated mortgages have forced them into a financial high - wire act with no safety net.

The plastic covering the chains and wires acts as protector and as a case when the bike folds.

In fact, this very high - wire act only adds to the discomfort; you're never quite sure where we'll end up.

Now, this high - wire act seems to be taking place just a few inches above the safety net.

There's a real high wire act to her scenes in disguise.

That safety net gives me more confidence navigating the daily high - wire act of entrepreneurship.

Rosamund Pike has spent a busy year shuttling between her home in London and Africa, where she filmed political thriller High Wire Act in Morocco — the latest go - to location for filmmakers (Tangier stands in for Beirut)-- and A United Kingdom in Botswana.

But I do recall one time sitting slack jawed watching acrobats, trapeze, and high wire acts at Cirque du Soleil.

So this is a high - wire act for Ukip and if they fail to win Clacton in two weeks» time and now Rochester and Strood, then they will land hard.

Pike is also attached to the Tony Gilroy - scripted High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm, about a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut as well as Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy In New York opposite Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges.

James Marsh's Oscar - winning documentary «Man on Wire» (2008) traces tightrope - walker Philippe Petit's death - defying high - wire act between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.

It's capitalism's version of a high - wire act without a net: one misstep, and you're done for.

Entrepreneurs are particularly susceptible, since they are constantly engaged in a high - wire act while juggling many tasks and issues, and any misstep could lead to the downfall of the start - ups they are running.

Balancing work and family was hard enough in 1994 before the prevalence of today's digital distractions — it's a high - wire act now.

After a lot of trial and error, Ossmann found these bugs can be remarkably simple devices — little more than a tiny transistor and a 2 - centimetre - long wire acting as an antenna.

The High Wire Act deal was negotiated by Bleecker Street's Avy Eschenasy, while WME Global and CAA repped the filmmakers.

Bigelow does this high - wire act better than just about anybody, and she's again working with screenwriter Mark Boal, her Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty collaborator.

«Into the Badlands looks like nothing else on television, a literal high - wire act attracting passionate and dedicated fans by the millions,» said Charlie Collier, AMC's president of SundanceTV and AMC Studios.

Craning them into position inside and out was a high wire act around a monument.

There's an aspect of tightrope walking to all of the works in this exhibition, a high - wire act where a shift in emphasis one way or another can destroy a delicate balance.

UK's high - wire act on power supplies laid bare.

The scale is amazing, whether it's lavish Bollywood dance productions, high - wire acts with motorbikes 30 feet above the High Street, dozens of actors in among the crowds and a spectacular firework finale.

, stocks are your high wire acts of daring.

For them, a bullish trend in the dollar gold price would send a disturbing signal that the greatest high - wire act in financial history is teetering.

Man U performing a business / footballing high - wire act at the moment — be pissing myself if they don't make top 4.

It's a high - wire act for bestseller Bohjalian, and while the climactic explanation may be a letdown for some, he generally pulls off a tricky and intriguing premise.»

Pike was Oscar nominated for Gone Girl and most recently completed the Scott Cooper - directed Hostiles opposite Christian Bale and Ben Foster, the Jose Padilha - directed Entebbe opposite Daniel Bruhl and the Brad Anderson - directed High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Animated Account of the Daring Exploits of Philippe Petit On the morning of August 7, 1974, a street performer named Philippe Petit sucked the collective breaths out of the world's stomach when he performed a death - defying, high - wire act between the roofs of the Twin Towers.

Refusing to capitulate to popular demands or market pressures, Mitchell remained authentic and «undertook a kind of high - wire act without the crowd - continuing to hold herself to the standard of art of the highest intensity, greatest risk, and loftiest ambition» (Ibid).

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

Being a Reformational Catholic Christian is a circus ride, a high wire act with no net but the loving arms of our faithful Father.

Making money in private equity is sort of like a high - wire act: The experts make it look easy, but how wise is it to try it at home?

Here's how millennials are outsmarting older savers at retirement Same - sex divorce poses complications for some couples Getting your student loan forgiven is a high - wire act

Starting a new business is a bit of a high - wire act, both thrilling and terrifying at the same time.

Poker is a high - wire act that any CEO could recognize.

But Microsoft is also engaged in a high - wire act that carries considerable risk.

How will overall debt downgrades and cascading economic uncertainly affect their latest high - wire act?

via Liz Hoffman at the WSJ

«It was a high - wire act.

That has got to be one of the greatest tight - wire acts of all time.

It is a high - wire act as the Coalition has committed to a root - and - branch review of the competition legislation with particular reference to grocery retail and banks in its first 100 days.

The coda to the TurinGames will be inspired by Venice's annual winter Carnevale — think acrobats,high - wire acts and actors in costumes from the 1971 Fellini film The Clowns.When the tumbling is over, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (above) will performand pass the Olympic torch to Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne, who will acceptit on behalf of the host of the 2010 Games, Vancouver.

They are a testy street gang that has transformed itself into the high - wire act of college football — the Miami Pound Machine, a club that can score from anywhere at any time, a traveling bomb squad that four weeks earlier had trailed 30 - 14 at Michigan with less than six minutes left in the game and won 31 - 30, using just one timeout.

- December 2011: US Department of Justice alters interpretation of the Wire Act; non-sports betting now falls outside they're scope.

The tragedy in Bed - Stuy highlighted the high - wire act that came to define de Blasio's first year in City Hall.

Few who knew him could applaud his pyrotechnic high - wire act.

However, Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham said: «It's a high wire act.

James O'Neill, the next leader of the NYPD, is stepping into the ultimate high - wire act.

The opening scene, in which the two friends share a Christmas Eve donut because they're too broke to afford one for each of them, unsentimentally suggests the high - wire act that making a living on the streets can be without the film ever slowing down its electronica - soundtracked strut.