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So if you catch it when it rises or sets, you might get an eyeful.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

Both types will get an eyeful from Dickson Carroll’s“Mirror Variations,” a suite of exuberantly framed looking-glasses that straddle the divide between decorative and fine art.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2022

To get a feeling for how modern-day Iranians celebrate, just search the hashtag "Yaldanight" on Instagram and you'll get an eyeful of scarlet-clad people posing in candlelit tableaux, watermelon-painted fingernails, and small children holding pomegranates.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2021

We're taken back to young Philip's early days, get an eyeful of some Nazi sympathising relatives, and see the boy turn into the man he would become.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2017

Stars?—you see stars by squinting through a viewing lens, and it's like a photo-transparency, and if you aren't careful, you'll get an eyeful of Old Blinder and back off with a punch-drunk retina.

From Death of a Spaceman by Schroeder, Ernest




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