We too visited Cassis and took the "vertiginous" road over Cap Canille to La Ciotat. From Wordnik.com. [Petanque - French Word-A-Day] Reference
And not just any heels: the only ones to be seen in are those preceded by adjectives such as "vertiginous", "teetering" and "skyscraper". From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Here is the end of Tate's vertiginous two-page poem. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
Since then, dot-coms have folded at a vertiginous rate. From Wordnik.com. ['Thank God'] Reference
Henry was living in a Paris of vertiginous inequalities. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: The World's First 'Terrorists'] Reference
And so it was, and the woozy, vertiginous anxiety gave way to hope. From Wordnik.com. [Roderick Spencer: The Democrats in Denver: Surprises and Shadows] Reference
It was a vertiginous freedom and insobriety of action exempt of logic. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Tulisa (dollish, glossy, watchful) walks gingerly in vertiginous heels. From Wordnik.com. [N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'] Reference
He wanted to document the human cost of a vertiginous economic collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Tara Stiles: America the Gift Shop] Reference
I have explored both frozen wastelands, both over 15,000 vertiginous feet. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: China and India: A War of Giants] Reference
Sure, the action is swoopy and vertiginous, just as it is in many other games. From Wordnik.com. [Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge] Reference
Looking down at your feet as you walk is less vertiginous if you're on the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [meli Diary Entry] Reference
The cataclysm of 1914 had its origins in the vertiginous years of a decade before. From Wordnik.com. [The Center Could Not Hold] Reference
Even in this age of toxic assets and vertiginous markdowns, that's quite a haircut. From Wordnik.com. [David Collins: None Dare Call Him Poor] Reference
These vertiginous poems share much in subject matter but have very different timbres. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
Then the vertiginous motion of the human top would overcome the force of gravitation. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Still vertiginous for most of us, but maybe just low enough to get Belgians to pay up. From Wordnik.com. [Money For Nothing] Reference
And with time on their hands, literary outsiders also lead vertiginous, noisy inner lives. From Wordnik.com. [Clinging To The American Edge] Reference
I didn't think the country could take another vertiginous ride on the Oedipal tilt-a-whirl. From Wordnik.com. ['To HELL With Them!'] Reference
The vertiginous effect is regrettable, though, for Mr. Blom has an important story to tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Center Could Not Hold] Reference
Now it was a vertiginous November and he was back, clad in a sackcloth and wire; a penitent. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Wire] Reference
A thousand kinds of vertiginous poetry are currently being written, from Ashbery to Volkman. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
At his best, he has made buildings soar, sculpting vertiginous whorls, waves, pods and chalices. From Wordnik.com. [Skyline Sculptor] Reference
How can they justify, even to themselves, the vertiginous disconnect between their words and their actions?. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Dwyer: Impeach Like Republicans, To Protect the Rule of Law] Reference
This vertiginous alternation between public and private crisis must satisfy some need in the Californian soul. From Wordnik.com. [Life On The Edge] Reference
Like a Christmas that was all Santa Claus and no Scrooge: blander, less vertiginous, and in the long run less precious. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
The tomb, a vertiginous wedding cake, is supported by four onyx Moors bursting out of tunics made of white Carrara marble. From Wordnik.com. [Canal Knowledge] Reference
Up there, the wall teeters along vertiginous drops, reduced to the width of a battlement and a stairway no wider than a shoe. From Wordnik.com. [From Military Artifact to Art] Reference
It's hardly the bright grail I went chasing, but there's beauty and cultural significance in its vertiginous, visceral badness. From Wordnik.com. [Got Game, Will Travel] Reference
I was overwhelmed by a sudden access of lava-like agony, accompanied by the vertiginous sensation that there was no there there. From Wordnik.com. [On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part II] Reference
It's the environment, that cold and vertiginous modern society, that provides the context for Antonioni's psychological probing. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Miley: Michelangelo Antonioni: Secretary of the Interior] Reference
Abandoned to its fateMirgitand lies in hills about 195km east of the state capital Ranchi, at the end of a stony, vertiginous track. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger in India: 'The real cause is lack of political will'] Reference
Its screens are the biggest on offer, and their vertiginous 1.43:1 aspect ratio is uniquely suited to tales set on dizzying rooftops. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Knight Director Shuns Digital Effects For the Real Thing] Reference
The national debt has reached a vertiginous 160 percent of GDP -- and is still expanding at some 5 percent of national output each year. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Road Ahead] Reference
The Senate Banking Committee is even worried that vertiginous computers might automatically erase the last 99 years 'worth of bank records. From Wordnik.com. [The Day The World Shuts Down] Reference
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