Sentence examples for vertiginous as from inspiring English sources

And it's every bit as mesmerizing and vertiginous as desire can be.

Yet the ups of her life could be almost as vertiginous as the downs.

Werner Mantz's 1928 view down an empty stairwell is as vertiginous as the century.

The early going in the Vasily Kandinsky retrospective, at the Guggenheim Museum, is gruellingly pleasurable, with splurges of paint as vertiginous as Frank Lloyd Wright's building.

Mr. Verbinski's staging is as vertiginous as an amusement park ride and places the wiry and beauteous tomboy Keira Knightley at the center.

Categories fall short of describing Grizzly Bear's elaborate compositions, which can be as lapidary as chamber-pop, as delicate as folk fingerpicking, as vertiginous as psychedelia and, at times, as dynamic as arena-rock.

For Flacco, the leap up the draft board has been as vertiginous and as unexpected as his climb up the wall.

Almost every square foot of the vertiginous rock, as well as the air around it, was thick with gannets.

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.

Welles studied Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! and some Buster Keaton movies for the piece, for which he used techniques such as rapid-fire cuts and vertiginous camera angles, as well as under-cranking for the speeded-up look of silent comedies.

That vertiginous equation was as alarming as it was befuddling to an audience quite content with batting average, thank you.