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.
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