Doing five, I think it's a bit of a high-wire act. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009] Reference
An ultralight pilot with an overnight high-wire act. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference
Certainly is a high-wire act as we've said this morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2008] Reference
To House leaders, this is a high-wire act without a net. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008] Reference
He pictures a high-wire artist traversing deep, dusky wine. From Wordnik.com. [Ants] Reference
GIBBS: There's a certain high-wire element to the whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
Thankfully, he seems to have the work to thrive in that high-wire plane. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week] Reference
Balancing unpalatable extremes, however, is a high-wire act, not justice. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Newberg: Pakistan's Courts] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: Kind of a tricky, high-wire act to characterize state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Any BMC event is basically a high-wire act: every single note is improvised. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Rodi: Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique] Reference
For the U.S., it's a high-wire act with this critical ally and nuclear power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007] Reference
The film functions as a high-wire act that can leave you giddy with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [A bad 'Vantage Point'] Reference
For the U. S., it's a high-wire act with this critical ally and nuclear power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007] Reference
It's something that is obviously kind of a tricky, high-wire act thing to pull off. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Still, he described the strikes as a "high-wire act" that risked damaging relations. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda's Focus Is Pakistan,] Reference
He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Papantonio: Our Frenzied Focus on Fox] Reference
Coover's novel, by the end, doesn't quite match the high-wire perfection of its early pages. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Fiction For the Prose Hall of Fame] Reference
But he describes this job as a high-wire act, where everything that he says is closely watched. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
But one thing about her high-wire act: it isn't boring, and she may well make it to the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Lawyer Lawyer Hero Hunter] Reference
It's the ideal marriage of high-wire rock and literate lyrics with a sharp, snarling point of view. From Wordnik.com. [They Don't All Sound Familiar] Reference
Gore has always been a fascinating high-wire act, profound yearnings balanced by immense self-control. From Wordnik.com. [Friends For Now] Reference
K. GIFFORD: Well, it's going to be a very delicate sort of a balancing high-wire act you have to walk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's Next for Kathie Lee? - May 11, 2000] Reference
Brown's high-wire walk and Kennedy's reticence were some comfort to the President's political handlers. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
If Picasso was modern art's brazen high-wire act, then Matisse (1869-1954) is its elegant bareback rider. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Beautiful Show In The World] Reference
It wasn't clear why, after months and months, the two sides had to resort to this high-wire act to settle. From Wordnik.com. [The Avoidance Of Wrath] Reference
Now this is the kind of dangerously high-wire concept that could easily have turned into an embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Grail In The Unholy City] Reference
This double Clinton thing is a high-wire act, well before she announced pundits were figuring the equation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2007] Reference
The pyrotechnics are impressive, though in these scenes a little magic and high-wire flying goes a long way. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Remington: The Forbidden Kingdom: Bad Script, Bad Acting, Bad Score, Otherwise Okay Movie] Reference
Joining us now in New York is Phillipe Petit, the high-wire artist who walked the tightrope between the two towers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001] Reference
They're scrapping the part we are always most curious about, the high-wire act that launched a million Uma-Oprah jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Caryn James: A Plea to Oscar Host Hugh Jackman: Less Johnny Carson, More Wolverine] Reference
Obama's speech nonetheless was a deft high-wire act that earned its share of supporters and detractors in the blogosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: Obama Is The New Black] Reference
Running as a truth teller is the shortest route to victory, but it's also a high-wire act over the Grand Canyon of Credibility. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
TRAVOLTA: ... probably the bravest thing that two actors ever tried to pull off, because we were on a high-wire the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2001] Reference
Even if no one dies on the launch pad, assembling the space station will be an orbital version of a high-wire act without a net. From Wordnik.com. [The Ultimate Thrill Ride] Reference
He first came to widespread notice as an aide to Richard Holbrooke in the high-wire, high-stakes diplomacy in Bosnia in 1995-97. From Wordnik.com. [So Far, So Fast] Reference
M. O'BRIEN (voice-over): It is a high-speed, high-temperature, high-wire act watched ever so closely from 300 million miles away. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006] Reference
Or putting -- no one will acknowledge that you're doing a high-wire act here, that this isn't the way summits generally are staged. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing On Camp David Summit A] Reference
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