Sentence examples for heady weeks from inspiring English sources

Quimby watched as friends and fellow townsmen enlisted during the heady weeks following the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

Every few years a collection comes up for sale that eclipses all the other art being offered during the two heady weeks in spring and fall when the New York auction houses sell important Impressionist, modern and contemporary works.

In the first heady weeks of the Arab spring, commentators made much of the role played by social media, but far more significant was the carnivalesque explosion of popular culture in revolutionary public spaces.

For a few heady weeks this summer change seemed at least dimly possible, as people raged about reform of the electoral system, of the whip's office, an elected second chamber … Most vitally, some called for a written constitution.

Napoli's eventual third-place finish was unlikely enough for a side whose wage bill is less than one-fifth the size of Inter's, but for a few, heady, weeks this spring the stunning form of Edinson Cavani, Ezequiel Lavezzi and company looked as though it might be enough to carry them to their third-ever Scudetto.

Although the delay will cost the Republicans only a few weeks of momentum, it illustrates how sobering the transition has been from the heady weeks of November, when the party won control of both houses of Congress and promised a swift and bold domestic agenda.

It must have been a heady week of rehearsals for the Ensemble ACJW, the performing arm of the Academy, a collaboration among Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute.

And as the price rises, so too does interest in more costly exploration across the Atlas mountains and in the Atlantic Ocean.Since the first heady week, there has been what Moroccans call a reality-check.

PARIS — It had been a heady week at Roland Garros for Treat Huey of Charlottesville, Va., but his French Open ended Sunday in a straight-set loss in a third-round doubles match.

It was a heady week for Ms. Clinton, preparing to address the convention 24 years after joining her parents, as not quite yet a teenager, in New York for her father's nomination.

CALENDAR A Heady Week TUESDAY -- President Bush is to deliver his State of the Union address, in which he is expected to explain why Saddam Hussein poses a threat to peace.