Sentence examples for acrobat from inspiring English sources

For example, a person walking a tightrope is performing an acrobatic act, whereas a person who pretends to be an acrobat walking a tightrope is performing a dramatic act.

I squeezed the apple between my hands and bent my head to my waist like an acrobat to bite at it.

But even this political acrobat could lose her balance if she is hugged too hard.

As luck would have it, the "family" includes an actor, a dancer, an aerialist and an acrobat.

Even so, Cirque's employment record is not spotless: last year, it had to pay $600,000 to settle a discrimination complaint brought by an acrobat who was found by a tribunal to have been illegally fired because he was HIV-positive.The biggest challenge for Mr Laliberté is to retain Cirque's family atmosphere and creative spark, even as the firm grows and inevitably becomes more bureaucratic.

The empress was daughter of a bear-keeper and an acrobat, from whom she appears to have inherited talents pertinent to her calling.

Their father, Gustavo Fratellini (1842 1905), a Florentine follower of the Italian patriot Giuseppi Garibaldi, was a circus trapeze artist and acrobat, and their elder brother, Louis (1867 1909), worked as a clown with Paul.

If man were able to change his moods as quickly as his thoughts, he would be an acrobat of emotion; but since he is not, his thoughts and emotions frequently become dissociated.

In Hans was Heiri they put six acrobat-performers through a series of transformations and tangles.

A lovelorn acrobat in 2012, then, is hardly going to wring any more juice from the image, but three lovelorn acrobats who happen to be chunky, beardy Vikings... that starts to be interesting again.

Acrobats (1929) is a wondrous sculpture, in which a male acrobat contorted in a back-bend has a female acrobat standing upon him in the act of doing a walkover.