Tightrope-walk

It was just 78 years ago that […] [Charles] Blondin tightrope-walked across the Niagara, […]

An East German circus artist tightrope-walked across a switched-off power line that had been left from pre-wall days.

In Santa Monica, a daredevil tightrope-walks across a swing set.

As for the Logan siblings, Kendall likens his latest showdown with his father to “a tightrope walk on a straight razor ... Five-hundred-foot reputational drop.” / “Why is that making you smile? That shouldn’t make you smile,” Roman replies. “Who likes tightrope-walking on a straight razor?”

They clambered over walls and rocks, crossed water (with blowup alligators lurking below) on a zip line, climbed a muddy cargo net out of a water pit and tightrope-walked across logs.

In his speech tonight, McCain, who has backed [George Walker] Bush on such controversial issues as tax cuts and the Iraq war, will have to tightrope-walk his way between saluting Bush and making it clear that he’s something different, that he represents change.

The Onion often tightrope-walks the line between humor and bad taste, but the satirical news site was forced to apologize Monday morning for a distasteful Twitter joke about Quvenzhane Wallis, the nine-year-old star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”

The NBA’s attempt to tightrope-walk through the coronavirus pandemic encountered significant turbulence this week as LeBron James and other stars pushed back against a proposed All-Star Game and Kevin Durant sharply criticized the league after being caught up in a contact tracing mess.

Several of the “Biden 16” are like [Brian] Fitzgerald, winning year after year by tightrope-walking between challengers in primaries and general elections.

[Shaheen] Holloway prefers to go 10 deep, and he was determined to do that this season after tightrope-walking his way through last winter with a seven-man rotation.

[Marshall] Goldberg then rounded his own right end and tightrope-walked the side chalk mark for 18 yards and a first down on the Washington 35.

That’s five innings the hard way for Quakertown, which left eight runners stranded as Pennridge tightrope-walked out of danger. […] Four or five more games like yesterday’s, and the Lady Rams will have tightrope-walked their way deep into the state tournament.

He tightrope-walked to a Game 2 save, giving up back-to-back, two-out singles to Corey Dickerson and Yadier Molina before getting Tommy Edman to foul out.

"Rocket Full of Pie" is pure visual comedy, involving baked goods that need to be thrown off a boat and a tightrope-walk across a very long muffler.

The audacity, the outrageousness, the dazzling changes of tone, the tightrope-walk between heart-pounding thrills and laugh-out-loud black comedy that made the first season so fresh and original were laboured and formulaic second time around.

Olszewski made some nice moves, received key blocks by Rashod Berry, and Donte Moncrief and did a nice tightrope-walk along the sideline.