Oeil definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Adrienne. At the first coup-d'oeil, the French ladies did not strike him as handsome; they looked, as he said, like dolls, all eyes and rouge; and rouge, as he thought, very unbecomingly put on, in one frightful red patch or plaster, high upon the cheek, without any pretence to the imitation of natural colour Eh fi donc!"

—Tales and Novels — Volume 09

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The first view of it did not strike us so much as Ranelagh, of which he said, the ' coup d'oeil was the finest thing he had ever seen.' — Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
Coup d'oeil ( "koo-dwee") is, "an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth." — Chicago Boyz
Clearly, Coup d'oeil is extremely important whenever commanders are operating in an environment with compressed time lines or imperfect information, or both. — Chicago Boyz
Do modern bureaucratic staff practices support Coup d'oeil or inhibit it? — Chicago Boyz
With hotel room sizes shrinking, glass walls are also a tempting trompe l'oeil: they make a room feel bigger by leaving sightlines unobstructed and maximize natural light from the bedroom windows, according to Patricia Miller, head of the hospitality group for the architecture firm Leo A Daly, who is designing exposed bathrooms for a hotel to open in India in 2010. — NYT > Travel