Sentences with phrase «wire act of»

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

But «impressive» hardly starts to cover it: love the film or not (I was a little cool on it, overall), Baby Driver is indisputably one of 2017's most audacious piece of film craftsmanship, a high - wire act of choreographing every element of the film production process into one steady flow.

On the less sympathetic side, we get Dixon (Sam Rockwell, in a daring, high - wire act of a performance), a patrol cop with accusations of race - based torture against him.

It's a captivating choice that serves as an unlikely thematic throughline of the film about a high - stakes high - wire act of negotiation and military maneuvers between Israelis and Palestinians in the 1970s.

It's a high - wire act of action, intention, and tone — at once sexy, alluring, and menacing — for all actors involved.

Branagh has mastered the tricky high - wire act of simultaneously kidding the conventions he is being absolutely faithful to, allowing us to squeal with both fright and knowing laughter.

Pearce, meanwhile, pulls off a tricky hire - wire act of his own, keeping the film's whodunnit structure tightly screwed without lapsing too far into genre contrivance — with the many, varied screeches and squeaks of Jim Williams» terrifically rattling score lending a significant hand in this regard.

It only took one movie for Chucky to be hobbled by the high - wire act of balancing malevolence and wisecracking.

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.

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

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

, stocks are your high wire acts of daring.

Not exact matches

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

A 2010 Senate report by Senator Lieberman affirmed the President's authority during war, threat of war, or «a state of public peril» to «take over wire communications in the United States» and «shut a network down» under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934.

But as the Fed's stock market «high - wire juggling act» continues, the valuation of the stock market becomes increasingly dislocated from the underlying economic and financial market fundamentals.

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

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.

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

Similar to the wire fraud conspiracy charge, this count accuses Aiello and Gerardi of acting with Kaloyeros to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging a request for proposals for Cor.

After he was appointed acting president of the cemetery, located at 122 Arthur Kill Rd., Griffin made wire transfers from the cemetery's account to replace his client's escrow funds, Schneiderman said.

In this process, the gallium droplets act as catalysts for the longitudinal growth of the wires.

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.

Researchers have taken yet another step toward creating super-tiny circuits using nanotubesthose miniature straws of pure carbon that can conduct electricity, mimic transistors, act as quantum wires and perform a number of other neat electrical tricks.

This is surrounded by the main insulation followed by another layer of carbon black, and finally, braided wire, which acts as an earth.

It controls several small motors that push and bend a wire to represent the sound of the user's words: effectively acting as a real - time jeweller.

As subjects ran on a treadmill wearing the exosuit, the actuation unit pulled on the wires, which acted as a second pair of hip extensor muscles applying force to the legs with each stride.

Depending on how the CNTs grow, a fraction of these carbon nanotubes can end up behaving like metallic wires that always conduct electricity, instead of acting like semiconductors that can be switched off.

The researchers also show that a pair of metal wires can act as terahertz endoscopes.

long extensions of neurons, that act like electrical wires to carry signals in the nervous system.

YEMASSEE, S.C. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) earlier this month conducted a rigorous three - day inspection of Alpha Genesis, Inc. (AGI), a Yemassee, South Carolina - based primate breeding and research facility, and found that the center was in full compliance with the regulations and standards of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), Company officials said today.

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

You may look and act relatively normal with adrenal fatigue and may not have any obvious signs of physical illness, yet you live with a general sense of unwellness, tiredness, a tired, but wired feeling, or «gray» feelings.

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.

A high - wire act that could crash if the actors were out of sync, but under this big top, the never - better Segel keeps everyone aloft.

The story goes from Philippe's youth, as a boy transfixed with the high - wire act at a local circus, to his young adulthood, performing in the streets of Paris.

In the 2008 documentary about his walk, Man on Wire, the talking heads and archival footage unveiled his feat, in all its danger and its daring, as an act of human transcendence of the kind we call art.

This all said one must remember that this is the cinemax arm of HBO, so while the acting is pretty good all around, it is by no means on the level of something like The Wire or Six Feet Under.

We're given the usual movie tropes: shots of the rapt young Philippe watching a circus act or, later on, juggling and wire - walking for spare change on the Left Bank, etc..

The planning and execution makes for some thrilling moments, but it's the titular climax that's the obvious highlight, and Zemeckis squeezes every drop of tension and delight out of the high - wire act.

Petit takes through his life — from discovering wire walking when he snuck into a circus as a kid — the head of said circus, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) later becomes his mentor; to his devotion to his art leading to his being thrown out of his parents» home; to meeting a beautiful street singer named Annie (Charlotte Le Bon, The Hundred - Foot Journey); to his first illegal act of artistry — wire walking between the towers of Paris» Notre Dame cathedral.

Recognizing an opportunity to recreate that incredible moment (one that only a small crowd of people had the privilege to experience) on the big screen, director Robert Zemeckis gives Petit's famous high - wire act the Hollywood treatment with the generically titled «The Walk,» and in IMAX 3D, no less.

In moving from Man on Wire to The Walk, we must revisit Petit's spectacular tight rope act with a hefty side of fromage.

It's a nimble high - wire act that Cretton, expanding on his 2008 short film of the same name, executes with poise and precision.

1 An absolutely enthralling piece of cinematic merriment — a veritable orgy of directorial high - wire acts — Quentin Tarantino's first segment of his marital arts revenge film is easily the most entertaining film of the year.

Whether it's former generals happily describing how they strangled innocent people with razor wire, government officials openly extorting business owners, a talk show audience applauding war crimes, or the sight of one of these generals dry heaving as he comes to understand what he did, The Act of Killing has no shortage of completely surreal and unbelievable moments.

A gritty, intelligent, complex and well - acted series that fired on all cylinders throughout most of its five seasons, «The Wire» represents TV drama at its finest, anchored by a fantastic ensemble cast that rivals «Game of Thrones» in its sheer size and ability to squeeze great performances out of even the smallest roles.

It was like a soufflé that takes place on a high - wire act, but then it would collapse,» he said of the earlier versions.

In doing so, he tackles that favorite high - wire feat of those in the acting profession: playing two separate characters in the same movie who happen to be identical twins.

But after «Flight» descends from its high - wire act, the film reshapes itself into a fairly standard story about substance abuse, and the life - long endeavor of maintaining sobriety.