lurid

For many people I’ve spoken with over the years — on the campaign trail, at parties, even at family dinners — the issue feels exhausting, abstract and even a little lurid.

It allows us to immerse ourselves in lurid details from a distance from this real pain that happens.

Verhoeven might have aged, but his love of the lurid has dimmed not one bit.

Ultimately though, the signature touch that makes the movie unmistakably his is the way it revels in the lurid and sensational.

The violence that pops up in almost every Yellowstone episode gives the show a lurid, pulpy sheen, and it plays to the primetime soap half of the show’s DNA.

This lurid embrace of art and life was not an isolated thunderclap.

As she walked through the camp streets, she turned away lurid leers with a troubled glance.

Then the locals arrived for water aerobics conducted by a Riviera coach in lurid pink-and-black Lycra to French pop.

When my house got broken into, my political convictions were instantly replaced with lurid revenge fantasies.

Late one August night in 2006, the always-lurid New York City tabloids had a story on their hands.

It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.

A lurid spot on each cheek showed burning red through the bronze of his skin.

The economics of war, therefore, has thrown its lurid light upon the economics of peace.

John Dickinson saw the matter in the same light, a light which his superior abilities enabled him to portray in more lurid colors.

Eloise in her corner was holding fast to the strap, when a lurid flame filled the carriage for an instant with a blaze of light.