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Sentence Examples Part of the pleasure of watching a one-man band is like watching a tightrope walker to see whether they fall off or not. Part of him always will be the bungee jumper, the tightrope walker, the High Noon gunslinger, the high-speed test pilot. Whatever the nature of their reclusiveness, all of them have learnt to maintain a tightrope balance between the world, the self and their art. I walked a sad tightrope between trying to impress cooler kids through imitation and my mortal terror of wrathful authority figures. He lives in hope that he can find more people willing to walk a financial tightrope so that others can tread the boards. The administration walked a political and social tightrope as it tried to satisfy the conflicting demands of all these constituencies. Her tree climbing was often described as how an ox would try to walk a tightrope. He has to walk a tightrope, not just one, but many, strung between all the many factions of this deeply divided nation. You'd think she was about to walk a tightrope between two skyscrapers or something! Rocked by this dizzying mix of emotions, you walk a tightrope, balancing your own needs against those of your loved one. All useful thought is founded on these two approaches working in tandem and balancing each other the way a long pole balances a tightrope walker. But as matters stand, Scotland are in limbo, consigned to treading a tightrope with players balancing jobs and sport. It is a difficult balancing act, but, at the moment, Canadian politicians barely stand on two feet, let alone walk a tightrope of any kind. A tightrope walker would not attract a second glance if he performed his balancing feat four inches from the ground. Sometimes, when moving along a large branch, or on the ground, they stand upright with their arms held high for balance, like a tightrope walker. Parents often must balance on a tightrope between giving too much and too little attention to their child's obesity. Mr Ritson is a leading 'slackliner', a sport in which the cable is looser than a tightrope. Hedges effectively treads the tightrope between comedy and drama without veering too far in either direction. In this regard, the resolution of the parliamentary faction treads a veritable tightrope. Life on the tightrope of politics is like a drug for those mad, brave or bigheaded enough to attempt it. Show More Sentences Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality. There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail. Inch by inch, the aerialist in the red flamenco outfit edges her way up a tightrope. But for the past few weeks, due to her sickness, Chad, the ringmaster and manager of the circus refused to let her on the tightrope. The West Wing became a critical and fan favorite, and successfully walked that tricky tightrope between pontification and dramatization. If you've ever wanted to walk a tightrope high above the circus floor but got nervous just thinking about it, slacklining may be for you. It's amazing how the tiger can jump through flaming hoops, how the bear can ride a motorcycle and how the lion can walk on a tightrope. His command is built on a tightrope of mixed emotions, a powder keg ready to explode at the slightest suggestion of disrespect. He flirts with danger, walks the tightrope and sends the run-rate zooming with booming blows. Labor will be walking a tightrope on the issue, as it has done since being elected. Their art treads a perilous tightrope and I think they've just fallen off. More misery for the chancellor Sighs of relief Those big boys next door Walking on a tightrope Tyranny of the tiny? It must have been the end of the school day for them as a flurry of wannabe clowns, tumblers and tightrope walkers came out of the bar as I was passing by. Like a tightrope walker we aim for a perfect balance between the taste of the grape and the oak. Whether they be painters, poets, dancers or playwrights, professional artists of all stripes walk a tightrope. In the greater Delhi region, mayors often feel as if they are walking a tightrope between their own municipality and the federal government. And the tightrope walker starts staggering, attracted by the object of his bravery. The difficulty lies in walking the tightrope between ignoring the differences and being exhibitionist about them. As a brand, blue moon beer is not unlike Blue Dog Democrats, walking the tightrope of competing identities. All weekend reporters in eastern Ukraine were walking a bizarre tightrope, of prurience, politesse, and ghoulishness. Show More Sentences And it is really funny to see the tightrope walking of some old detractors, who now speak well of him. A dauntless host who walks the tightrope of verbal virtuosity will strut his stuff. At the same time, Giolitti, always walking a tightrope between the conservative and progressive components of his own majority, was heavily conditioned in what he could offer. It managed to walk the tightrope of edginess and heart without wobbling too nerve-rackingly in either direction. The way politics works, it always involves a tightrope walk with hope on one side and despair on the other. He was talked out of a tightrope walk between two sky-scrapers to open a megastore in New York, but he has come close to death many times in publicity stunts. The heir to a tightrope walking family has tried some crazy stunts in his day. The tightrope walk between self-promotion for the sake of viability and distaste for anything that smacks of selling-out has presented Stanley with a dilemma. I have always dreamed of working at a fair as either a human cannonball or a tightrope walker. The growing rift between the two partners forced Bonn to walk a tightrope in its foreign relations. She became a television presenter instead of a tightrope walker. The tightrope walker will start from the 13th floor of the Price Building and cross to the tower on the 14th floor of the renowned hotel. But I give kudos to the E. C. B. for managing what really has been a tightrope situation. How are we to walk the tightrope between independence campaigns and national cohesion? Who crossed the distance of 700 meters on a tightrope strung up from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower to the Trocadero? So we need to walk the tightrope, do the balancing act and combine our potential commercial capacities with traditional public service products. Mentions Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker, whose signature on a wall is being preserved by plastic. To write without thinking is to walk a tightrope with no net. Like any good flanker – and he's a great one – Richie McCaw tiptoes along the tightrope of the laws of rugby. Children as young as eight and nine have been spotted chancing dangerous tightrope walks across the poles which rise up to 30 ft above the ground. Show More Sentences Narrow gauge is railway jargon for tightrope, and the train careered drunkenly through the night. But it is refreshing, and a relief, that it can walk the tightrope of its own controversy just as skillfully. As such they are having to walk a tightrope between rapid development and stability. As for a ritual, each tightrope walker has an individual ritual that he keeps for himself! Sport was clearly her way of unwinding in a country where a journalist is often like a tightrope walker who has to fight to keep their balance. For example, a person walking a tightrope is performing an acrobatic act, whereas a person who pretends to be an acrobat walking a tightrope is performing a dramatic act. The painter is floating with his palette in his hand, the violinist has lost his head, and the tightrope walker and the ox stand with their feet on a wall. He built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, and turned the Tramp into the accidental star of a circus. Roberta T. and other women who work on the street have to walk a tightrope of doing legal work that involves being in public places but being unable legally to engage in conversation with potential clients in public view. Aerialist Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk over a gorge near the Grand Canyon drew nearly 13 million viewers to the live television broadcast. At the same time, they're trying to walk a tightrope, perhaps, balancing between improving the environment and at the same time trying to make sure the economic growth in this country continues. And the real daredevils can walk a tightrope and do acrobatics. At least a tightrope walker has an end in sight. It's the exhilaration of watching a tightrope walker. Contacted on today's official radio session this Sunday lunchtime, Marc, who is advancing like a tightrope walker was unable to have any long discussion. The enemies of music gathered to see my mother and convince her that I would become a charlatan, a tightrope walker? if music was not forbidden me. Phillipe Petit has been arrested over five hundred times on five different continents. This tightrope walker, who is globally renowned for his clandestine crossings, started out learning the magic arts at the age of six. Between rock credibilty and mainstram winks, Biffy Clyro is clearly looking for having a foot in both camps, while managing decently this performance of tightrope walker. The correct walking method is similar to that of a tightrope walker. One foot is placed directly in front of the other in a heel-to-toe formation. Catherine can't perform the crossing because of an extraordinary event: the arrival of a future tightrope walker named Camilla Kelvink-Léger, our baby daughter! Show More Sentences The pleasure of the glide in the contact of the nature, this afternoon tightrope walker and acrobat in search of a beautiful bank or of a pirouette in canoeing, the sensations are for the meeting. Not a single recipient benefits from the huge gears that turn with a sepulchral tone, barely disturbed by the lightweight of a young local tightrope walker. The top of the cover has a Sajou label representing a tightrope walker. Simon lifted himself up onto the tree limb like a tightrope walker, his feet on one branch and his arms barely grasping another branch high above his head. Emotions will be running high in Quebec City late Saturday night, July 11, as tightrope walker Ramon Kelvink Jr. crosses a high wire stretched from the Price Building to the Château Frontenac. Yes, and if interaction with the audience is permitted then Damiaan can also use it to boost his volume of script, walking the tightrope between playing the scene seriously and hamming it up. The company constantly walked a tightrope between operating on little money and filling orders quickly. This year's circus theme will engage young audiences in a number of outreach activities, such as juggling, stilt walking, tightrope balancing, and entry-level flying acrobatics. The gap is as wide as it ever was and David Cameron is still wobbling on a tightrope strung across the chasm, but now without the benefit of any safety net. It's made from coconut tree sap which is extracted each morning by 'toddy tappers' who tightrope walk between the upper trunks to reach the precious nectar. The Ticos already have three players walking the yellow-card tightrope, including midfield cog Yeltsin Tejede, so they will need to tread lightly in Enugu on Wednesday. Prior to its broadcast, publicity for the second series of Broadchurch walked a tricky tightrope between not saying anything at all and saying way too much. Still, the conventional wisdom among Republican political operatives in Washington right now is that the tightrope Paul is walking probably won't lead to the White House. Regulation is a tightrope walk between too much and too little. This political approach is, to say the least, counter-managerial and like walking a tightrope. It is plunging the country into an economic crisis and permanent insecurity. There is no historical model or patent remedy for this tightrope walk. The mood of these works walks a delicate tightrope, fluctuating between tears and smiles, shade and light, tenderness and passion, each one displaying an admirable individuality. Parliamentary scrutiny, a delicate exercise that involves walking a tightrope between different interests, is the object of criticism at a number of levels. You can watch a non-stop procession of leaf-cutter ants who walk a tightrope above your head on a tireless mission to get leaves. Is that the weirdest thing that's happened while tightrope walking? Show More Sentences Open to all ages, the workshop will allow people to try juggling, tightrope walking and unicycling, as well as learning magic tricks and balloon modelling. A slackline is a combination of a tightrope and trampoline and is used as a way to improve balance, practise tricks and enjoy fun competitions between friends. It's a tribute to Joseph Gilgun's performance that his sort-of leader Rudy stays just on the right side of the tightrope between raffishly funny and deeply annoying. The BDM's activities focused on physical education, with activities such as running, long jumping, somersaulting, tightrope walking, marching, and swimming. This tightrope act helped create an acceptable model for gynecocracy. Bolger tightrope Despite my gracelessness though, I feel calm and like I've had a good work out and the following day, my calves and core feel nicely stretched out. Examples from Classical Literature There were washed out trails where the ride would be in the nature of tightrope walking. Telephone to the clown, or the juggler, or the tightrope walker, or the horseback rider. When a performer falls from the tightrope, who remembers all the times he has not failed? Bein' married that a-way, I takes it, is somethin' like walkin' a tightrope. Kendricks made a nervous joke about a tightrope walker, but when his turn came he picked his way securely, without losing balance. Smith I CAN'T believe tightrope walker Nik Wallenda was allowed to do his Grand Canyon stunt without a safety harness. This is what aerialist Nik Wallenda might look like when he undertakes a tightrope walk near the Grand Canyon. Should you like to be a juggler, a tightrope walker, or a clown? Father Bright felt as though he had been walking a tightrope for hours. Lara, with her famous dual pistols, and Carter use grappling hooks to help the deities tightrope walk across tricky sections. The famous Blondin was going to perform on a tightrope in another part of the garden. The Estonian filmmakers are coming to end of shooting a documentary in Osh city about the life of a young tightrope walker and his family, the Cinema Development Fund said. The colourful history of the Nocks, who are said to be of Irish descent, dates back to 1770, when their romance with the tightrope began and they first became circus artists. Find more words! 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