Just after their wedding, and at the very height of their success, disaster strikes.
Congress voted to withhold federal money in 1988, at the very height of the AIDS epidemic.
That response to public officials creating traffic jams is the very height of normality.
Oddly, it is the very height of the Bouffes du Nord in Paris that makes it so intimate.
Her mother's death, she writes, "had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.
Sometimes peasants worked the land as freeholders (as in fact many peasants had always done, even at the very height of the manorial system).
He directed the transformation of the Dutch East India Company, then at the very height of its power, from a commercial to a territorial power.
So I dragged her to Glastonbury – essentially a boiling hellscape of faeces and mouldy food – at the very height of her morning sickness.
"What really distracts me and disturbs me is, we stopped at the very, very height of the reputation of the orchestra and what we have achieved together".
Reflecting the very height of exuberance and expectation, John Dowling, 69, a retired packaging foreman for Budweiser, only half-jokingly asked for a prescription for 1,000 pills.
Part of New York City's unique social ecology -- impersonal at times, strangely intimate at others -- derives from the very height of its buildings.
