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eye-filling

American  
[ahy-fil-ing] / ˈaɪˌfɪl ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. attractive to the eye; providing an eyeful.


Etymology

Origin of eye-filling

First recorded in 1895–1900


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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

Still maintaining a slight and dwindling speed toward Earth, her bow swung from that planet's eye-filling panorama and came to face, instead, the invisible asteroid.

From The Passing of Ku Sui by Anthony Gilmore

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