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
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
The exterior, with its sheets of perforated, biomorphic white cladding — the color and texture of gefilte fish — is eye-filling but unmagical, though there are nice touches inside.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2015
He presented an eye-filling spectacle, and was indeed the ideal imitation bad man.
From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Hough, Emerson
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