strike the eye

The poison goes into the blood, and it strikes the eyes first.

Even the action of light striking the eye generates free radicals.

Maybe this case hid more than struck the eye, and not only on the opponent's side, he thought.

But that is not the result that first strikes the eye in recent years.

It may also strike the eyes and the thin tissue lining the inside of the nose.

The video images strike the eye as a melody strikes the ear.

It is the cathedral's colourful interior that particularly strikes the eye.

The audience applauded, laughed at the moment when the rocket struck the eye of the moon.

The size of the whole thing did not strike the eye at first; it simply looked out of proportion to the landscape.

Our intimacy struck the eyes of everybody, we did not make of it either a secret or a mystery.

They lashed out across the intervening darkness, striking the Eye at its core.

Rediscovered art always provides historically important information, but not all of it strikes the eye as contemporary and alive.

Household items, such as elastic cords, can also strike the eye and cause injury.

The only injury so far occurred when glass from a shattered side window struck the eye of a teen-ager in a church van.

The fumes from the powder when it struck the eyes must cause irretrievable blindness.

Despite a prevailing wistfulness in many of Muller's images, his art can also strike the eye as quite aggressive.

The images first strike the eye as generic and familiar, a kind of lazy-man's collage.

At all hours of the day they strike the eye with some new beauty, and the mind with the same menacing gloom.

Another special feature that strikes the eye here is the enormous tank in which thousand elephants according to local version were swimming at a time.

'Maybe, then,' says he, 'it will be different now,' and he struck the eye next him with a switch.

As they dismounted at the stairs, a placard in large letters struck the eye of the Legate.

What strikes the eye here is emptiness: burned-out buildings, vacant lots, stores boarded over.

This is sometimes weakened by a formal indecisiveness that can strike the eye as too self-consciously unskilled.

They struck the eyes like a blow and they passed across the nerves like a rasp.

In the interior the pictorial effect of the black and white marble stripes on the walls and columns strikes the eye.