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- noun Attributive form of
eye candy
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Examples
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She has rarely taken what she calls 'eye-candy' parts - 'Well, to be honest they don't often come my way' - preferring strong female leads: in the BBC detective show
Evening Standard - Home Hermione Eyre 2011
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Following her successful stint as eye-candy for Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole is to hopefully bugger off to the States and never return, while the four other ones (whose names your Correspondent can't be bothered to look up) have all announced straight-to-bargain-bin solo projects, cameo roles in soap operas and kiss'n'tell exposees of how they worked their way through the entire Liverpool squad in one night.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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It is the very thing we say we want in our blockbuster films -- imaginative and original fantasies that offer real ideas and potent criticisms of social norms while also containing a flurry of jaw-popping cinematic eye-candy.
Scott Mendelson: 2011 Year-End Wrap Up: The Underrated Films of 2011 Scott Mendelson 2011
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It is the very thing we say we want in our blockbuster films -- imaginative and original fantasies that offer real ideas and potent criticisms of social norms while also containing a flurry of jaw-popping cinematic eye-candy.
Scott Mendelson: 2011 Year-End Wrap Up: The Underrated Films of 2011 Scott Mendelson 2011
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I mean, I know it's a pointless, buggy, overpriced, resource-intensive pile of expensive eye-candy, but in the absence of any innovation since Windows 3.1 we have to compete with Apple somehow .
Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009
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I found it a reminder that I'm not twenty anymore, and look for something more from actresses than eye-candy.
Archive 2009-07-01 Ulysses 2009
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The team at HuffPost Arts banded together to come up with a roundup of the 15 books combining the vital eye-candy factor with substance from all across the design/art publishing spectrum.
Divine Design: 15 Books From Factories To Femmes Fatales The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I mean, I know it's a pointless, buggy, overpriced, resource-intensive pile of expensive eye-candy, but in the absence of any innovation since Windows 3.1 we have to compete with Apple somehow .
Microsoft to Cut 5,000 Jobs Dungeekin 2009
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In the twink-heavy world that guy-on-guy comics can be, this is a welcome addition to the eye-candy landscape.
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Following her successful stint as eye-candy for Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole is to hopefully bugger off to the States and never return, while the four other ones (whose names your Correspondent can't be bothered to look up) have all announced straight-to-bargain-bin solo projects, cameo roles in soap operas and kiss'n'tell exposees of how they worked their way through the entire Liverpool squad in one night.
Girls Aloud Sign New Contract Dungeekin 2009
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