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  • With its aristocrats, statesmen and perilous times, "The King's Speech" is a throwback to the majestic, eye-filling costume pageants that dominated film awards in Hollywood's earlier decades.

    Oscars 2011 Nominations List Huffington Post/AP 2011

  • She was proud of him — ­a goodly, eye-filling figure of a man to any woman; but she no longer felt sorry for him.

    CHAPTER XXVII 2010

  • That's clear in a first chapter that's smashing on every count, including scenes eye-filling in their evocation of the times, ear-filling in their music reliable indicators of the rest to come.

    Mysterious Murders, Other Terrors 2010

  • Heavy hanging clouds, and the ways they scud in the background as part of Alex Katz's eye-filling and often sinister décor, help give Mr. Taylor's dance its name and its eerily changeable nature.

    A Modern Master's Past and Present 2009

  • Next, a robust male voice-over exults that “Monroe, Grable, and Bacall add their own wonderful dimensions to the eye-filling dimensions of CinemaScope.”

    All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002

  • Next, a robust male voice-over exults that “Monroe, Grable, and Bacall add their own wonderful dimensions to the eye-filling dimensions of CinemaScope.”

    All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002

  • Harry even provided me with eye-filling entertainment his days off duty when, while I was sunning on my terrace, I would observe him turn up with a female companion to share with him the temporary use of a cabana and the pool.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • Mrs. Jordan -- her face irradiated with satisfaction -- was acknowledging the plaudits of the villagers, who shouted more or less in proportion to the eye-filling properties of the departing guests.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • She was proud of him — ­a goodly, eye-filling figure of a man to any woman; but she no longer felt sorry for him.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • This simple young man actually found impressiveness, glamour, even beauty, in this eye-filling canvas; the crowding of crashing lights and interwoven shadows, massed, innumerable, bewildering; the turmoil of confused and broken line, sprawled with tremendous carelessness for

    The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

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