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
This next act was a tightrope walker, named Monsieur Duval.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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