What is "giddying"

Usage examples of "giddying".

It was the emotion itself, the intense, giddying, slick, and sick-making ardor she had heard in their voices that appalled her.

Unsettling in its precision, it became a giddying and hypnotic sight that seemed to stretch time itself for the two watchers.

Ethriss told the Cadwanol to go beyond and we’re pushing the limits of our knowledge so far and so fast now that it’s giddying for me, let alone you.

His hold on Isloman tightening so hard that the big carver grimaced, Andawyr found himself looking down the giddying perspective of a curved wall that was many times higher than the highest towers of Anderras Darion.

You can't see much from the street-the owners didn't want common people staring at them as they sat on the lawn counting their money, so they put up dense hedges and high walls-but I discovered quite by chance that the city had built an asphalt footpath all along the cliff edge, from which I could see the backs of the grander mansions, as well as enjoy giddying views of the ocean breaking onto the rocks far below.

It just silently drew back, like a set of theater curtains being opened, and suddenly we saw that we were on the edge of a sheer, giddying drop of at least a thousand feet.

For a giddying moment, he felt as though he wasn’t real, as though all his senses were feeding into a bottomless black hole, a vast chasm into which he, too, was being dragged.

Geologists, as McPhee has noted, found themselves in the giddying position that “the whole earth suddenly made sense.

But it is a curiously giddying moment to find yourself staring at living remnants of Earth as it was 3.

All of a sudden the world rocked and twisted and great hills of water erupted in their path, and sometimes the junqs ascended them at a giddying angle and came close to capsizing and sometimes they crashed into them prow-foremost so they broke and doused the crews and filled the back-wells, soaking the stored food.