Sentence examples for vertiginous quality from inspiring English sources
Despite their scuzzy appeal, the Dead Weather's previous two albums have tended to fall a little short of Jack White's usual vertiginous quality standards.
"While I know David Childs is capable of making a competent building for the site, Daniel Libeskind's plan had a vertiginous, dizzying quality that captured something of New York and it would be a shame to lose that," Mr. Ivy said in a telephone interview.
And although they're held in high esteem – partly due to the vertiginous drop in quality once they ran out – the James Bond movies based on Ian Fleming's novels weren't all masterpieces.
Did that represent a handing over of the baton, or a vertiginous drop down in terms of quality?
The Tour de France's visits to Mont Ventoux are rare enough to lend a special quality to any victory at the vertiginous finish adjacent to the observatory, but if Chris Froome does survive the final week's racing through the Alps to win the 100th edition of the race, his solo triumph on top of the Giant of Provence could well be seen as the high point.
The vertiginous downward curve of the stage floor gives the ballroom scenes an overwrought surreal quality.
Beneath the edgy humor and showy set pieces in the Coens' work (the tommy-gun shootout to the strains of "Danny Boy" in "Miller's Crossing"; the vertiginous tracking shot down a bathroom drain in "Barton Fink"), there's plenty of old-fashioned sentiment to be found -- a quality masked by the brothers' refusal to attach easily explicated endings or easily deciphered morals to their films.
In her terrific blog, Mirror, Kartina Richardson does so her meticulous viewing and vertiginous, exciting insights get deep into the history of cinema, which she approaches with love, despite its own worst qualities (and she doesn't shrink from discussing the personal side to these contradictions).
The effect is vertiginous.
It is a vertiginous moment.
