And indeed, when news reached me Friday that a link to a petition to save St. Marks books was going around the Internet, I got that queasy, vertiginous feeling you get when you've been dumped, fired, evicted, or told that your kitten's been run over.
A corner of the Mixing Chamber, with a view so vertiginous that you want to scream.
By the end of Steve Cosson's vertiginous production you're likely to feel both exhilarated and exhausted by all the layers of time and thought you've traveled through (2 15).
Nor does the author of the impossibly knotty short story Octet, whose vertiginous finale begins: "You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer".
Heels are a must, or rather "vertiginous pumps like you're sitting pretty for your Andy portrait", a spirited nod, perhaps, to the cult of celebrity.
The pool room is stunning, with two sides of high glass giving you vertiginous views – right over the park on one side, though an obscuring fog was down.
From the stair landing, the salon floor is perhaps only five feet down; but across the room, huge windows start below the level of the top stair, and produce a vertiginous feeling as you look down on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"When any of those inputs is out of sync, then you feel vertiginous, or dizzy," he said.
You're right in the thick of things, and the camera often jerks all over the place, making it impossible for you to get your bearings (something called an image shaker is employed to achieve this vertiginous effect), and at times you long for the storytelling equivalent of an overhead shot — some glimpse of the big picture — to help you make sense of what you're seeing.
