tightwire

The real challenge in public opinion research is walking the tightwire between question wordings that will slant responses one way or the other.

Another Public Space Survey - NASA Watch 2009

I really don't need to get that Chuck Close a topography of makeup deposits and tightwire nip/tucks.

Thud and Blunder: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Highwire is the same as tightwire but at much greater height.

Deborah Jiang Stein: 3 Tips for Positive Living 2009

Odom, though, walks the tightwire with an amazing adeptness.

Magnet Magazine Review » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2006

After divorcing her first husband, tightwire artist Billy Powell, in the mid-1960s, she was remarried to Robert "Bucky" Steele, an elephant trainer.

A 'Blond Bombshell' of the Circus 2008

In a conference call, Miller spoke of the tightwire challenge of balancing inventories and cancellations; he lauded Lennar's "focus and discipline in a changing market."

Miller Cites 'Focus' As Lennar Rides Housing Surge 2006

I may not always successfully tread the tightwire.

no no! I can't be writing right now I have to---aaaaiiii! Holly 2005

My lady gave up her job somewhere in the first trimester, leaving me to be the sole breadwinner, and now I'm walking a tightwire that pretty much cuts into my feet as I try to balance my share of the child rearing, wanting to be there with my little one, and needing to pay the bills.

older and wiser, telling you what to do 2005

I had no doubt that, assuming I could find that balancing point, it would be a tightwire act of constant adjustments and accommodations, but certainly it had to be better than what I had been doing?

Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004

My first real step back onto the tightwire act that used to be my life.

Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004