Life for these workers is a tightrope act without a net, so the least that we lucky ones can do is stop whining.

Theirs is a tightrope act of onward-and-upward, fixing firmly on the good and ignoring the bad.

Lallah Rookh was known for her tightrope walking act.

Her most famous feat was her tightrope walking act.

Parenting can often seem like a tightrope act.

Did they expect him and Deanna to do a tightrope act?

Clinton-watching is a sport in America because at any moment it's a tightrope act.

Finding a tanker in the va/s of the sky had always been a challenge, a real tightrope act when one was low on fuel.

It could be ballet or modern dance - but it's a tightrope act.

As an exercise in cultural history, "Jazz Modernism" is something of a tightrope act.