Sentence examples for vertiginous did from inspiring English sources

The ambiguities resulting from the placement of the piece in the movie are vertiginous: did Scorsese intend to suggest that the commandant wouldn't let duty interfere with his love of music, or is its presence there in the memories of the main character, Teddy Daniels — who was present at the camp with the liberating U.S. Army — one of the character's phantasms?

But the vertiginous streets did not foster a neighbourly environment.

If the Chinese economy – represented by these vertiginous monuments – does fall to earth, one cannot help thinking that it would create a very large bang indeed; one that would be felt in every corner of the earth.

Through March 19 Like the intense, vertiginous San Francisco cityscapes he did in the late 1970's, these six big landscapes by the painter Wayne Thiebaud share an exhilarating giddiness of perspective: you view them from above, but from a vantage point you can't quite establish, as if gazing down while on a nervy helicopter ride.

Palau responded by twirling the models' hair into vertiginous up-dos, while McGrath gave them expressive ballerina eyes with "slightly messy" black shadow and liner.

But I did savor again the vertiginous spell of Black Narcissus (1947), which is probably one of the saner movies in their oeuvre but still comes across as a bizarre cross between a fairy tale and a Freudian drama.

The alcohol-swigging Betty never calls her blue periods "the mean reds," as the alcohol-swigging Holly did, but the women have their vertiginous moods in common: luminescent looks overlaying dark psyches.

He didn't mean simple unrest but a vertiginous sense of impermanence about the most fundamental structures of the state.

Did I want to go back to the same vertiginous location and try the Chinese equivalent, one floor up?

But that didn't stop Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi from sporting some vertiginous platform wedges when the "Jersey Shore" gang returned to Seaside Heights Thursday to begin filming the series' sixth season.

Warpaint's slippery, nocturnal rock is successfully recontextualised as hazy sunny afternoon music, but Jon Hopkins' vertiginous techno could really do with a roof and a light show.