Sentence examples for vertiginous fall from inspiring English sources

They are partly filling a vacuum created by the vertiginous fall of elected politicians from grace.

When Democratic front-runner Gary Hart had his vertiginous fall in 1987, after his photo with Miami model Donna Rice on the Monkey Business hit the papers, feminists were irate that this progressive pol was treating women as objects.

Even before DSK's vertiginous fall, Lagarde, who has three younger brothers and who elbowed her way to the top male tier of the City of Broad Shoulders, had warned about the dangers of too much "hairy-chested" testosterone.

It was a vertiginous fall for George Romney, who, while running for president in 1967, asserted that generals and diplomats had given him "the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get" when he toured Vietnam two years earlier.

Luise Rainer, said to have been a keen childhood mountaineer, ascended to Hollywood's peak swiftly but suffered a vertiginous fall after finding her intellectual outlook and solid sense of self-worth were out of sync with the studio system.

It was a pathetic measure of his vertiginous fall that he once thought he could be the boss of the very prosecutor pushing for him to go to jail for up to 30 years and pay up to $1.5 million in fines.

That's a vertiginous fall for a party that delivered a political volcano just three years ago (recall our cover, to the right), ejecting the Liberal Democratic Party from power for the first time (with one brief exception) since the time of the Eisenhower administration in America.

Last month one of her co-authors alleged that Dr Obokata had switched mice in her previous experiments, adding to suspicions that her STAP cells were actually embryonic stem cells.The frenzy around Dr Obokata's rise and her vertiginous fall continues to reverberate.

Both involve hazardous terrain to negotiate, above vertiginous falls to waves pounding on the rocks below.

It was a particularly good thing to be about in the 1990's, a decade in which the economic folk tales were of astronomical success (or, by the end, vertiginous falls), but the broad reality was quite different: for Americans in the middle of the wage scale, real earnings, adjusted for inflation, declined or held flat for much of the decade.

Severiano Ballesteros marks his retirement with Seve: The Official Autobiography (Yellow Jersey Press, £18.99), a pedestrian account of a great career that fell into vertiginous decline when he should still have been at his peak.