tightrope walker
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His first series, “Jultagi,” used the Korean tightrope walker as a metaphor for the immigrant experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
In one video, a tightrope walker suspended between two mountains edges toward the viewer, creating an unsettling urge to look down at an intimidating chasm below.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2023
He was a one-man circus: A tightrope walker and a clown.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
I felt like a tightrope walker, balancing the urge to hurry out of the cutting wind and the need to step carefully so as not to fall on my hind regions.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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