Beattie has always been the queen of ellipsis, of the pregnant blank space and the vertiginous jump-cut, and in fact she does backtrack to explain the negotiations for a prenuptial agreement that will leave Jane very comfortable no matter what happens to their marriage.
Earthbound spins and tumbles explode into vertiginous jumps, while themes of support and strife unfold through frequent lifts and confrontations.
'For the big companies that offer coasteering, it takes a stringent course to be a tour guide.' At around £80 for a day spent jumping off increasingly vertiginous cliff faces, confrontation with gravity and salt water has rarely been more expensive.
"Conservative?!" he spluttered with faux indignation, as you might if you'd just performed a series of gravity-defying jumps and spins on a vertiginous course and were then faced with a gaggle of journalists new to the sport whose only experience of a triple was in the bar.
The jump to Berlin could prove too vertiginous at this stage.
In a silver jump suit, Mr. Satterwhite dances athletically through a vertiginous flux of glimmering abstract and representational imagery, including offbeat texts — rendered like rubbery neon signs — from drawings by his mother.
Hence the result is a heady and vertiginous piece of cinema, using optical effects, split screens and double exposures as it jump-cuts, by association, from city to city and moment to moment, the titular "man with a movie camera" more of a magician – maybe even a cyborg – than a social historian, and far from a passive bystander.
There are also plans to put in lifts which will save visitors slogging up the vertiginous staircase to the walkway across the top – which is currently a popular spot for bungee jumping, as well as giving spectacular views out to the North Sea and up over the Cleveland Hills.
That was one of the more easily decipherable statements delivered by the international band of riders flinging themselves down the vertiginous 635m course on the Rosa Khutor mountainside and performing a series of tricks on rails and huge jumps on their way down.
The effect is vertiginous.
It is a vertiginous moment.
