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vertigo

Dizziness; a whirling sensation accompanied by a loss of any feeling of contact with the ground. It may be due to temporary disturbance of the sense of balance (as in spinning for too long on one spot), psychological reasons, disease such as labyrinthitis, or intoxication.

Vertigo

Psychological screen thriller made in the USA in colour in 1958, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel by Pierre Boileau (1906–1989). It examines the nature of obsessive love in a plot about a detective (James Stewart) who falls for the woman (Kim Novak) he is tailing; he sees her apparently die and then stumbles on her double. His gradual breakdown and hallucinatory state are reinforced by Hitchcock's dreamlike style.



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It was the beginning of a vertigo which lasted for six months, and which I began to fight with various devices and must yield to at last.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
To think this is giddiness and vertigo to human limbs, and even vomiting to the stomach: verily, the reeling sickness do I call it, to conjecture such a thing.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
had well thought over the fresh defeat he had experienced, when he perfectly comprehended the complete isolation into which he had just fallen, on seeing his fresh hope left behind him, he was seized as with a vertigo, and sank back in the large armchair in which he was seated.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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