eye-opening
[ahy-oh-puh-ning]
- serving as an eyeopener; enlightening: an eye-opening investigation of government corruption.
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Contemporary Examples
Before Ebola, 97 percent of children were immunized, according to an eye-opening report by NPR.
The eye-opening documentary E-Team, shot by James Foley and others, will premiere on Netflix Oct. 24.
In 1988, I spent an ACT UP weekend in Washington D.C., which was an eye-opening experience for both sides.
Then Morris provides some eye-opening evidence to the contrary.
Exclusive: Watch Donald Rumsfeld Lie About Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, and 9/11Marlow Stern
April 2, 2014
By all accounts, this was an eye-opening experience for the congressman, and the inspiration for his current focus on poverty.
Historical Examples
And very much will depend upon the way in which we face such sensational and eye-opening experiences.
Faces in the FireFrank W. Boreham
The old man's mind had not been wandering in the eye-opening moment of consciousness regained.
The PriceFrancis Lynde
Eye folds are only occasional and eye-opening height is usually moderate.
A Racial Study of the FijiansNorman E. Gabel
They are records of accurate, useful, eye-opening details as to fauna, all the world over.