Eye-wreck
n.— «None of the “that stuff in Eye-Wreck” news will fit the American categories of perception and discourse. Hostile Iraqis, abu Ghraib, gesticulating clerics, robed jihadist, incessant street bombings—none of these things fit the script.» —“Ground-level reports from inside Iraq” by John Koch Just World News July 21, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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