be on the edge

Only one of the palace’s towers still stood, and even that one looked to be on the edge of collapse.

Oscar nerds will be on the edge of their seats.

“They’d be on the edge of their seat and laughing at certain moments, and I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, that was so intentional,’” he said, though the midmovie applause, which carried over to Sundance, still caught him by surprise.

Hornbuckle said Cirque cracked the code of Las Vegas audiences: “They wanted to be entertained without having to think too much about it. They wanted to be excited, they wanted to be on the edge of their seat, they wanted to see something that they couldn’t see anywhere else.”

As the nation’s capital seemed to be barreling toward another debilitating federal government shutdown this weekend, America, well, did not exactly seem to be on the edge of its collective seat.