Sentence examples for of a vertiginous from inspiring English sources

The perfume equivalent of a vertiginous heel, it contains come-hither hints of Indonesian patchouli, tiger orchid and toffee.

In the most dynamic scene she is perched at the top of a vertiginous slope, trying not to slide down towards the outstretched arms of a drowning crowd.

These last prove useful during the film's thrilling middle section in Dubai, when Hunt has to climb the sheer face of a vertiginous glass-walled hotel (it's the Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world).

His hues roam the rainbow: the oranges and green on a silk-screened "botanical pump" so lush it begs for Allegra, and the denatured turquoise and neon orange of a vertiginous ankle-strapper.

After just 10 years of operation – and at the cost of a vertiginous £1.4bn to the British taxpayer – the mixed-oxide fuel plant nestled on the edge of bucolic west Cumbria is to be decommissioned.

"Have you ever thought," Gaddis writes in "The Recognitions," that "all the people you have met and all the people you will meet... are somewhere now right this instant being real?" With its diffuse collection of stories, "Men in Space" takes on Gaddis's challenge of keeping track of a vertiginous sequence of interlocking lives.

Harmony Korine's woozy, sleazy joyride through the college-caper genre amounts to a sustained demolition job on the squeaky-clean image of its stars, dispatching Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens on a vertiginous tour of the fleshpots of Florida.

On the set of his 1972 masterpiece, "Aguirre, The Wrath of God," a vertiginous portrait of a Spanish conquistador who unravels during a search for El Dorado, Herzog struggled to control his gifted but satanically mercurial star, Klaus Kinski; at one point, when Kinski abruptly announced that he was quitting the production and leaving by canoe, Herzog threatened to shoot him.

After some haughty cruising, the Rapide made its performance stand on what residents call the Cliffs of Insanity, a vertiginous set of twisties along the Hudson River Palisades north of New York City.

Washington is home to a vertiginous tangle of industry associations, activist groups, think tanks and communications shops.

In "Pain", myth opens out of myth, a vertiginous topple heightened by the short sharp shocks of the sentences: "Here, a woman screams /into the face of another.