Nothing you see makes any sense at all, but the sensations are undeniable, and kind of fun in their vertiginous, supercaffeinated way.
Along the way, they achieve the impossible with vertiginous style, blending NASCAR maneuvers with demolition-derby impact, special-forces exploits with acrobatic aplomb.
Streets are often all but deserted at night, and the district is crisscrossed by freeways whose ramps make navigating its vertiginous one-way streets tricky for the uninitiated.
Who hasn't sometimes been astonished at the vertiginous nature of love, the way it is an unstable equilibrium, a magical but precarious balancing act?
The preposterous length of the new book does include a vertiginous sensation, somewhat in the way of a "Where's Waldo?" cartoon: the text exceeds our ability to keep everything in our heads, to take it all in at once.
On the day we arrive the lower slopes are busy with cyclists rather than fans and everywhere we look Lycra-clad pilgrims are beetling their way up its vertiginous flanks.
It's the emotional epicentre of the album: a vertiginous high from which the only way is down, mood-wise.
There were contemplative piano interludes touched by Gershwin and Debussy, stately Aaron Copland chords, busily twittering woodwinds, twinkling music-box-like interludes and motoric arpeggios by way of Mr. Glass, and vertiginous waltzes and sustained chaotic tremolos out of "A Day in the Life".
The stairs leading to the room were vertiginous.
Wenger's anger and disappointment was assuaged by pride at the way his players tackled a vertiginous four-goal deficit against the leaders of Serie A. Rolling forward in a red tide which all but swept Milan away, Arsenal were within a goal of levelling the scores before half-time.
