Sentences with phrase «heady sense»

Its heady sense of decorative delirium.

Over the next few years of travelling, I met many fascinating travellers, all sharing a spirit of adventure and that heady sense of freedom.

Not exact matches

Indeed, according to writers and scientists such as Pierre Duhem, Stanley Jaki and Peter Hodgson, science in the modern sense of the word took root in the late Middle Ages, fuelled by a heady mix ofChristian theology and the newly rediscovered riches of Greek philosophy and mathematics.

I had not tried reducing red wine with sugar before and the heady aroma was such a delight, and cooking pure cream that came out of a box that said «creme excellence» gosh... all together this was one of those dishes that pleases your senses so much as you work through it, and the end result was great too... thanks!!

I allowed myself to savor all this, too, a sense of happiness, excitement, and security that had eluded me since the heady days at the Media Lab.

A powerful attraction can literally overtake your common sense, and you can get lost in a heady space during sex.

The charm of bird song and the heady fragrance from the woodland flowers rejuvenates my senses.

However, the trek is worth taking because it is so gorgeously rendered and tackles strong themes that make it a heady trip for the senses.

Riding out these degradations is hard going at times, but this heady thematic mix of «issues about the justice system, gentrification, power dynamics, and racial profiling» also boasts an energetic «music video aesthetic... to give a sense we're playing in Leah's New York fantasies.»

Chick depicts the company's meteoric rise in an opening credits sequence and we never get a sense of the exultation and crazy riches of the two brothers as the company begins nor of the heady flim - flam atmosphere of that mad, insane blip in American business history when a guy and a computer could sit in his basement and make millions.

The heady power reserves will be channeled through a seven - speed dual - clutch gearbox with paddle shifters and, in keeping with tradition, a Torsen torque - sensing four - wheel - drive system with a sport differential offering torque vectoring to all four wheels.

That smell - the heady (in a literal sense) aroma of a book, of a small neighborhood bookstore, the paper, the ink, the glue - is nearly as important to me as the story within those pages.

Driven by a skewed sense of optimism, this is no fusty rendering of man pursuing fame and fortune with superfluous optimism, but a heady rollercoaster of a trip with Hanna cleverly orchestrating a taut, superbly observed plot.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick, my favorite novel, does it all: furious action and high adventure mixed with deep contemplation, a heady concoction of metaphysical flights of fancy and absorbing details of the lives of whalers, and a sense of the mystery and unknowable - ness of life.

The combination of pure outdoor adventure and big city sophistication was a heady adventure for the senses.

It had minimal decoration; the walls were described as «interrogation green» and its clock ran backwards, but heady with a sense of creative energy and rebellion.

When it comes to heady conceptual works that still welcome (rather than alienate) viewers, few artists can match the sculptor and photographer Nicole Wermers for her adroit eye and keen sense of balance.

A rare and heady mix, to be sure, but what I eventually emerged with was this reluctant sense that despite all its horrible faults — My Lai and Guantanamo, water - boarding and drone strikes, not to mention the current American political polarization between Occupy and the Tea Party — empirically speaking, the West has the only viable governmental systems on the planet that comes even close to the practical democracy that will be needed to solve the problem.