Sentence examples for vertiginous pace from inspiring English sources
One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change.
What is striking in Thailand is the compressed time frame, a vertiginous pace of change brought on by the country's rapid economic rise.
While the vertiginous pace of "Queer Street" leads you to expect someone a bit on the wild side, Mr. McCourt is animated but well-behaved, avuncular, kindly.
The growth of the skeleton, by contrast, slows from the vertiginous pace of early childhood, and though there is a mild growth spurt at age 6 or 7, as well as a bit of chubbying up during the so-called adiposity rebound of middle childhood, much of the remaining skeletal growth awaits the superspurt of puberty.
As Angier puts it: "what worries researchers is the vertiginous pace at which humans are digging up carbon caches that were tens of millions of years in the making and tossing the gaseous end products back to the atmosphere in just a handful of decades".
We're hurtling from one discovery to the next at a vertiginous rate.
When a low-level drug dealer and a high-level mobster have separate conversations in the same park, Risso's clear-lined art keeps pace with both simultaneously through vertiginous shifts of focus and point of view.
But think how awful it has been for the poor president, pacing around his Oval Cage as Al Gore frittered away this huge, amazing gift that had been bestowed on him: the best economy in the history of mankind, a burgeoning surplus, a declining crime rate, minuscule unemployment and inflation, vertiginous approval ratings.
As we begin to see Glass through Lane's eyes, the film's mood darkens and its pace accelerates; what had started as a sharp workplace comedy becomes a clammy, vertiginous psychological thriller.
The effect is vertiginous.
