These last prove useful during the film's thrilling middle section in Dubai, when Hunt has to climb the sheer face of a vertiginous glass-walled hotel (it's the Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world).
The pool room is stunning, with two sides of high glass giving you vertiginous views – right over the park on one side, though an obscuring fog was down.
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.
The vertiginous thrill of ice climbing isn't for everyone.
Daun partly blamed the vertiginous effects of her new glasses.
But aside from the brooding drama of Design, with its writhing bassline and vertiginous, unexpected melodic switch-ups, Glasser displays far less interest in disrupting the exquisite surface of her ideas than she did on Ring.
It is, quite possibly, the law that every spy movie in recent years must feature vertiginous scrambles over retaining walls, broken glass, hurled polyglot insults and blameless flat-dwellers sitting peacefully in their undies watching the local version of Loose Women until the film's principals run through their living rooms without a by your leave.
The joins in the glass are minimal, so you have the vertiginous experience of standing on a small triangular projection over the street.
A boat marooned in a sea of shattered Murano glass; a river strewn with decomposing, cremated bodies; a coffin approaching an island of vertiginous cliffs — fragmentary reflections of Venice and foreshadowings of Varanasi stalk Jeff as he makes his way through the Biennale and the boiling city, clutching his three-day vaporetto pass.
By Ligaya Mishan May 12 , 2009A boat marooned in a sea of shattered Murano glass; a river strewn with decomposing, cremated bodies; a coffin approaching an island of vertiginous cliffs — fragmentary reflections of Venice and foreshadowings of Varanasi stalk Jeff as he makes his way through the Biennale and the boiling city, clutching his three-day vaporetto pass.
