eye-filling
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of eye-filling
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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You can’t help being impressed by this world — an eye-filling blowout zooming at you in Panavision and Dolby.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
David Korins’s main sets — three incarnations of the Maitlands’ house as it passes from their hands, to the interlopers’ and finally to Beetlejuice’s — are suitably eye-filling.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2018
Given how busy each panel is, the movie demands viewing on a large, eye-filling screen, similar to the kind used at the 1967 Montreal Expo.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017
The staging, which involves changing projections that often spread beyond the grandiose theater’s proscenium space helps keep the show eye-filling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2016
Wherever one goes in France among the cities and larger towns the ideas of big and eye-filling perspectives are aimed at by the municipal authorities and architects.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
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