high wire

It's a tricky enough high wire to have the derogatory phrase "cafeteria Catholic," someone who selectively decides what parts of the faith to accept and what to reject.

Of course, one problem with walking a high wire is that your opponent can try to knock you off.

“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”

Of all the State of the Union addresses a president could deliver, it’s the one that comes in an election year that counts as the ultimate high wire act.

AP Film Writer Jake Coyle called it a “high wire act of a biopic” in his review, favoring the experimental black-and-white beginning over the later years, which focuses more on the increasingly complex family dynamics.