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- noun Alternative spelling of
tightrope .
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Examples
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In appearances on all the major talk shows, Cabinet officials and military advisers clarified the president's position after he walked a political tight-rope by announcing he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that some will start coming home in 19 months.
Obama aides fine-tune meaning of Afghan withdrawal date 2009
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It has about as much in common with a conventional night-club experience as a tight-rope walker does with a ballerina, or Coney Island does with Carnegie Hall.
Ringing in the American Revolution Will Friedwald 2011
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With Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson walked a tight-rope between engaging our sense of curiosity with lots of information about the book's subject matter and making us wonder why we were not simply reading a work of non-fiction about tech start-ups, cryptography or the enlightenment.
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Writers of historical fiction walk a delicate tight-rope.
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It could even argue for the relevance of aesthetics in critical reviews; I think this is a path fraught with the peril of collapsing that review into compatibility assessment or prescriptivist dogma, but if that review still fundamentally takes the work on its own terms … well, it is a tight-rope walk that other critique might emulate.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Stephenson navigated this tight-rope by managing to balance exposition with some vestigial plot and characterisation.
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For example, “But when the circus comes to Omaha, and Mary meets tight-rope walker George Maserati, she risks an anxiety attack for the chance of finding love.”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Battle of the Query 2010
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Generally speaking honesty is more important they desperately trying to walk a tight-rope between being ‘edgy’ enough for your core audience but “politely correct” enough to not start any controversies you cannot gain from.
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It is an interesting tight-rope to walk: You want to provide opportunity and encouragement, but not push or force-feed it to them.
On the Right Track 2009
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It could even argue for the relevance of aesthetics in critical reviews; I think this is a path fraught with the peril of collapsing that review into compatibility assessment or prescriptivist dogma, but if that review still fundamentally takes the work on its own terms … well, it is a tight-rope walk that other critique might emulate.
The Assumption of Authority 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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