causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep
Halfway across the lake, she thought in a vertiginous stumble
vertiginous attempt to classify the dung beetles of one corner of New Guinea
forgot the meaning again
those familiar vertiginous fancies, arising, say, at the edge of a subway platform
largely responsible for the vertiginous increase in the top centile’s share of wealth in Britain and France during the Belle Époque.
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This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.
The silence growing vertiginous, my body’s surface like a black cloth absorbs his angry baffled look.
their vertiginous self-recasting into capitalists and nationalists
The vertiginous point where I turned back in the rain
And then there’s the paragraph so vertiginously hopeful that it makes you catch your breath
To stand on the deck is to experience a vertiginous toppling of the frozen moment of launching.
This vertiginous shift coincides with a condition of disorientation, of groundlessness.
Growth averaged nearly 5 per cent between 2010 and 2014, while inequality remained vertiginous.
Portfolio [...] undergoes a vertiginous rise
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the vertiginous awareness of disrobing in front of your computer
I experienced a vertiginous excitement at the prospect of this happening
we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans
the vertiginous sensation of possessing Jesus's power