eye-hurting

• “The landscape was an aching, eye-hurting desolation.”

  Chapter 12

• “It reflected the midday sun with a bright eye-hurting intensity.”

  The Outstretched Shadow

• “Intricate, eye-hurting symbols were chalked over every available surface, and black-flamed candles burned at the five cardinal points.”

  The Chaos Gate

• “Against one wall was a hi-fi unit, and over the fireplace, a picture of a mountain scene painted by an amateur, all eye-hurting colours and peculiar perspective.”

  Death of a Charming Man

• “Reds and yellows that swirled together in eye-hurting combinations, screaming, clashing pinks and yellow-greens-and the intensity was somehow too much; a fluctuating, pulsing brightness, as if they were burning themselves out with every heartbeat.”

  Born To Run

• “Fssa burned beneath his green illusion until he became an eye-hurting incandescence that was a Fssireeme at near-normal body temperature.”

  Dancer's Illusion

• “One of those who had gone aboard had in his hand what looked like a square box which the downing sun caught and awoke into an eye-hurting burst of light.”

  Flight in Yiktor

• “They should have delighted the soul of Sir Henry Simmerson, for everything that could be polished had been burnished to an eye-hurting intensity, whether of leather, or bronze, silver or gold.”

  Sharpe's Eagle

• “The magnified flame was eye-hurting violet, and it fanned out like a rocket firing in vacuum.”

  The Ringworld Engineers

• “The figures were published in the UK Film Council's annual statistical yearbook, a mammoth, eye-hurting publication that is nevertheless packed full of interesting data on film trends, showing that cinema-going appears to be bucking the recession. available in full online.”

  The Guardian World News

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