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  • The eye-wrenching wonder stepped delicately away from Ivan's device, still sloughing halos of the orangey light of creation.

    Things People Like to Write About; Or, This Week is Already Off to a Bad Start 2009

  • What they were looking at was a dazzling-and, to Bowman, eye-wrenching - exhibition of shapes and colors, as if a mad geometrician was displaying his wares.

    Tin 2010

  • Ok, then what's with the sweet pastels combined with that eye-wrenching red and yellow combo?

    Easter Potpourri Jen 2009

  • Ok, then what's with the sweet pastels combined with that eye-wrenching red and yellow combo?

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jen 2009

  • His landscapes and starfields had a heightened, ecstatic quality about them, awash in luminous, jarring colours and eye-wrenching tricks of perspective.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • The view reminded me of the work of a pre-Expansion artist who had specialised in eye-wrenching tricks of perspective and composition: endless waterfalls, interlocking lizards.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • It flowed across the hallway in that eye-wrenching way, ebon cloak hanging in denial of motion.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • A man in a coat that still showed a little eye-wrenching blue lay hard against it, one sprawled hand black with blood.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • From oldest to youngest, the Tinkers wore clothes even more colorful than their wagons, in eye-wrenching combinations that had to have been chosen blindly.

    The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

  • The view shimmered, gave an eye-wrenching jerk, steadied and enlarged — "Holy mother," someone murmured.

    Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990

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