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A new Metroid game for the DS (and a platformer, not an eye-searing touchfest like Hunters) would definitely do the trick.
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The bridesmaids, Greta, Elaine, and Alice, were dressed in an eye-searing chartreuse that left Ben wondering just what these old friends had done to his bride back in junior high school to make her hate them so much.
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The bridesmaids, Greta, Elaine, and Alice, were dressed in an eye-searing chartreuse that left Ben wondering just what these old friends had done to his bride back in junior high school to make her hate them so much.
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Please do not use light or eye-searing colors, like pink, purple, light or bright green, or red.
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Scariness can be achieved with subtleties and such, but horror really needs some eye-searing violation, I think, to rise to the necessary level of disturbing to be truly called horrific.
Clive Barker Puts a Rusty Knife in PG-13 Horror « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Ditto with the Hawaiian shirt with the eye-searing pattern of chartreuse pineapples on a field of rampant pink flamingos — unless you are pitching the definitive Don Ho bio, of course.
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Were it not for Shia LaBeouf's herky-jerky acting in Transformers, for example, it wouldn't have been the muddled teen comedy about giant robots who talk slang, piddle on government officials and watch Shia LaBeouf have sex that we all know and love; it would have been an action thriller about massive angry robots relentlessly smashing each other to pieces in eye-searing explosive close-ups.
Shia LaBeouf Arrested For The Old Glug Glug Vroom Vroom 2007
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Justine admired the broad patch of eye-searing scintillations with the kind of weariness she reserved for dangerous animals.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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Weather is a particular concern, since the city's eye-searing pollution almost nixed China's bid.
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They plan to shut down or relocate polluting factories, including the vast state-run Capital Iron and Steelworks, which helps cloak the capital in an eye-searing pall of yellow smog.
All That Glitters... 2007
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