Sentence examples for vertiginous speed from inspiring English sources

With vertiginous speed, the treaty was ratified by both chambers of the parliament.

Across the Middle East, the political kaleidoscope is spinning at a vertiginous speed.

That, at least, is the vibrant impression created by Tash Aw's third novel, set in a frenetic megacity of 20 million people, where fortunes are made and lost with vertiginous speed against the highrise Pudong skyline.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, it was thought that railways would whirl people about the world with such vertiginous speed that their nervous systems could collapse under the strain.

The vertiginous speed of the bill's progress — from 3 pages to 450 in the blink of an eye — makes one suspect that not every aspect of the bill and its potential repercussions has been gone over with a fine-toothed comb: one wonders, in fact, how many of our representatives can even have read it through once in that amount of time.

Adams's focus -- and his fear -- centered on its size and mechanism, its "huge wheel, revolving within arm's-length at some vertiginous speed" while making hardly a sound.

And the band's set-up, combined with the emotional directness of the songs and the space built into the music, recalls the xx, another trio that found an audience with vertiginous speed.

But the explosive climaxes, the sometimes vertiginous speeds – in the scherzo and finale of the 5th, and in the finale of the 7th, for example – seem to be relentlessly insistent and are at a cost to the music's moments of wit.