Sentence examples for vertiginous at from inspiring English sources

The jump to Berlin could prove too vertiginous at this stage.

Of course, month after month of gloomy financial news can bode well for the dinner obsessive; if the care and attention to detail isn't already vertiginous at this level, in the competitive atmosphere of Vegas it's mind-blowing.

Looking down can be vertiginous at first, but the glass channels allow light to permeate up and down the building, and tie the entire building, inside and out, together in a way that underscores what is new about it.

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.

The effect is exhilarating, vertiginous - at times, bewildering.

Jacques Derrida was in residence, Paul de Man's vertiginous star at its zenith.

That honour belongs to the redoubtable and vertiginous "Howitzer" at the other end of the summit ridge.

This episode regales us with car action, motorbike action, underwater action, a vertiginous skirmish at the Viennese opera, and the usual liberal helping of abseiling.

Heinz Berggruen's problem early last Tuesday wasn't the sixty-five million dollars that four of his Cézannes and one of his van Goghs had brought him in twenty vertiginous minutes at auction in New York.

There was vertiginous horror at suddenly becoming the biggest rock star in the world, and, poignantly, Cobain was finding a kind of happiness as a husband and father at the same time.

There is the same vertiginous thrill at lurching from exemplary declarations of universalist ethics ("Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting for it") to the flared-nostrilled defence of Edwardian privilege, such as public schools.