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 Translation for 'eye-catching' from English to Italian
ADJ   eye-catching | more eye-catching | most eye-catching
SYNO attention-getting | eye-catching
vistoso {adj}eye-catching
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Translation for 'eye-catching' from English to Italian

eye-catching
vistoso {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Alexander Jackson Davis designed eye-catching row houses called LaGrange Terrace (now Colonnade Row) for speculative builder Seth Geer.
  • Grimsby beach is home to "Gingerbread Houses" that are painted by owners in bright colours and flourishes for an eye-catching addition to the area.
  • What was really eye-catching, from the point of view of other mathematical areas, was the proposed connection with algebraic topology.
  • However, in British usage, these, apart from "downtown", are more likely written with a hyphen: "ear-splitting", "eye-catching".
  • The style now called retro art is a genre of pop art which was developed from the 1940s to 1960s, in response to a need for bold, eye-catching graphics that were easy to reproduce on simple presses available at the time in major centres.

  • The site's consensus is: "All style and very little substance, "Flashdance" boasts eye-catching dance sequences—and benefits from an appealing performance from Jennifer Beals—but its narrative is flat-footed".
  • They can easily be spotted because of their eye-catching silver-red color.
  • The spider then aligns one pair of its legs with each of the four lines in the hollow "X", making a complete "X" of white lines with a very eye-catching spider forming its centre.
  • He also used eye-catching typography and book designs, and used yellow dust-covers on books.
  • During the seventeenth century, different types of fabrics and designs were used to make costumes more spectacular and eye catching.

  • Yellow journalism and yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales.
  • The car's popularity in Germany increased after a minor face-lift in 1937, which coincided with an extension of the variety of body styles on offer, and which visually distanced the look of the car a little from its British origins, replacing the earlier car's spoked wheels with modern steel wheels and applying the eye- catching wrap-around front grill, which was becoming a feature of German Fords in the late 1930s.
  • The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.
  • Patent leather and poromerics are used in applications where an eye-catching glossy appearance is the most important consideration.
  • This makes them eye-catching and therefore more likely to draw in people's attention which is of course, very good for commercial purposes.

  • The eye-catching Googie style flourished in a carnival atmosphere along multi-lane highways, in motel architecture and above all in commercial signage.
  • He wanted eye-catching "pièces montées" – elaborate displays of patisserie – in his windows.
  • British biscuit companies vied to dominate the market with new products and eye-catching packaging.
  • Amongst other things, the Butler Report concluded that "the fact that the reference to the 45 minute claim in the classified assessment was repeated in the dossier later led to suspicions that it had been included because of its eye-catching character".
  • These include the Otto Erdesz "cutaway" viola, which has one shoulder cut out to make shifting easier; the "Oak Leaf" viola, which has two extra bouts; viol-shaped violas such as Joseph Curtin's "Evia" model, which also uses a moveable neck and maple-veneered carbon fibre back, to reduce weight: violas played in the same manner as cellos (see vertical viola); and the eye-catching "Dalí-esque" shapes of both Bernard Sabatier's violas in fractional sizes—which appear to have melted—and David Rivinus' "Pellegrina" model violas.

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