I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes.
In this context, South Africa's tiptoe diplomacy on homophobia in Africa exposes the troubling underbelly of current leadership on democracy and human rights.
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But then, for all his accuracy and arcing, tiptoe artistry, cigarette in one hand and dart in the other, he often threw games away altogether: once so drunk that he could hardly walk, and another time sealing his defeat by toppling off the stage.
And least of all Sarah Solomon, 72, a Lincoln investor, who at his trial stood on tiptoe to seize him by the lapels and shout, into that craggy and sanctimonious face, "Mr Keating, what happened to my money?
Fortunately, nanotechnologists today do not have to tiptoe around so much.
As a result, Darwinism had to tiptoe round the issue of how human society and behaviour evolved.
"As she marched us down our front stairs, she would say what our smiles were on tiptoe to hear, 'Come on, children, let's go out and drive the white folks crazy' .A prize-winning essay, "The Typewriter", published when she was just 19, won Miss West entry into the radical black literary set.
