Sentence examples for on a vertiginous from inspiring English sources

Now, tattooed skateboarders with long hair and long shorts chase air on a vertiginous concrete bowl that to the uninitiated screams head injury.

To give a more telling perspective on a vertiginous achievement, as recently as the 1996 Atlanta Games, Britain won just a single gold – in rowing.

As the evening sun begins to fade, head for Erimitis (00 30 6977 753499; erimitis.com), a swishly sophisticated bar/restaurant, poised on a vertiginous west coast cliff-top cloaked in thick green forest.

Paul Pennyfeather is shaken from his studies at Oxford by the marauding Bollinger Club, and embarks on a vertiginous, queasy journey through the relative innocence of school teaching to the corrupt experience of chrome-covered London.

One afternoon, we emerge from a hibiscus thicket to a campsite on a vertiginous granite escarpment overlooking the ochre savannah of Samburuland 2,000 feet below, dotted with acacias and sloping north to the Matthews Range.

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.

First thing, I stepped outside my bedroom on to a vertiginous balcony that is embedded in architectural history, before descending four storeys to the canteen.

Well, it's pro-environment and very keen on fairness, but less keen on altogether abandoning a vertiginous economic order, which means that tickets to gigs like this are super expensive.

On the right was a vertiginous upwards slope; on the left, just … air and, far below it, barely visible in the distance, the outlines of the Swedish village of Are.

And floor-to-ceiling video images by Jared Mezzocchi surround the set on three sides, providing a vertiginous theme-park-style panorama in motion of Manhattan streets.

A spindly metal claw, like a tarantula made of steel, squeezes under a door and comes right at you; hummingbirds hover before your face; a ride on a trapeze becomes a vertiginous swing into the depths.