Sentence examples for vertiginous effect from inspiring English sources

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Hearing his father's name spoken in "my adopted country's highest chamber" had a "vertiginous effect" on Matar, a feeling that recurred every time it was repeated, and for a while he felt that all he wanted to do was to get up and get out.

"Scanners," a set of six radio scanners tuned to different frequencies, defines an alternative kind of sculptural space, as does, in another mode, "Live Video," in which wall-projected images of viewers are multiplied in real and delayed time to vertiginous effect.

The picture is a pure thrill ride, with the camera attached to the front of a train hurtling around hairpin turns and down steep mountainsides, creating the same exhilaratingly vertiginous effect that the makers of "This Is Cinerama" would replicate with a roller coaster in 1952 (and which digital 3-D continues to exploit today).

You're right in the thick of things, and the camera often jerks all over the place, making it impossible for you to get your bearings (something called an image shaker is employed to achieve this vertiginous effect), and at times you long for the storytelling equivalent of an overhead shot — some glimpse of the big picture — to help you make sense of what you're seeing.

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Daun partly blamed the vertiginous effects of her new glasses.

After this weekend's press screening of the film at the New York film festival, a number of critics, including The Guardian's Nigel M Smith, described the vertiginous effects of watching the real-life drama.

Vertiginous visual effects wizardry makes the film a triumph of physical sensation, though even its stomach-rearranging spectacle takes a tumble on a 2D television format.

The craft with which the plot is constructed is a model of emotional science (even if, at crucial times, events follow each other with mere chronology and no inner necessity) and the artistry that went into the vertiginous digital effects concentrates a host of skills that, when put together, still fall short of art.

The effect is vertiginous.

What's more, "Avengers: Infinity War" seems built to be seen and re-seen; the directors, the brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, pack the film's transformations and effects into vertiginous camera plunges and surges and swish pans, winks and asides — a realm of sheer visual complexity waiting to be parsed in detail on repeating viewings.

But vertiginous house prices stunt this effect.

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