There was a lurid story about that section of town in the newspaper yesterday. From LearnThat.org.
lurid details of the accident. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A lurid sunset. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
lurid crimes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The plays I had been in, with my parts underlined in lurid orange. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig] Reference
Its genius was frankly militaristic, its history is written in lurid characters before our eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Annual Meeting and Ladies Night/Our Nation Considered as an Ethical Idea] Reference
If pop really did eat itself some 20-odd years ago, then recent months have seen it spew up the contents of its stomach in lurid fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future] Reference
Bones - calling the lurid story "totally fabricated and absurd.". From Wordnik.com. [Starpulse Entertainment News] Reference
DONALD WILLIAMS, ULSTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: And had an interest that I think can best be described as a lurid fascination with the details of what occurred. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2005] Reference
This idea that somehow he's luring them up with this kind of lurid tale, this is a seduction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2003] Reference
I am certainly put off standing for elections by the kind of lurid personal attacks that so many attract. From Wordnik.com. [Who do so Few Candidates Have Blogs?] Reference
But the rest, in actuality, was gruesome, dark and self-destructive-the kind of lurid fodder that trashy "E!". From Wordnik.com. [Film Festival's Riveting Fare] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. WAINWRIGHT: ... it has a whole kind of lurid, desperate quality which I find very compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Loudon Wainwright's 'Charlie Poole Project'] Reference
Kirk Fordham told reporters he was trying to spare Foley's sister, Donna, and his ailing parents from the "lurid" details. From Wordnik.com. [10/04/2006] Reference
He knows his phone's tapped, and occasionally some of the more "lurid" conversations make him amused about what the listeners think of him. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations, Sue!] Reference
HAYES: Well, it sounds like they're basically going to release the arrest warrant, which doesn't have a lot the kind of lurid details that people might expect it to have. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003] Reference
Ships are covered in lurid detail. From Wordnik.com. [Bataan Diary Reviews] Reference
But a kind of lurid brilliancy spread over the island, against which stood out confusedly the wooded masses of the heights. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Island] Reference
Bangor Superintendent John Reinhart says the district learned the "lurid" photo was being circulated among students on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
It was to be a kind of lurid, vibrant hyper-realism, as real to the reader as if he or she were walking through the slum areas of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Elizabeth's sense of humour showed her the kind of lurid drama that Pamela no doubt was concocting about her -- perhaps with the help of Beryl -- the two little innocents!. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth's Campaign] Reference
Peckinpah's paranoia about women is on ample and lurid display. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of A Bloody Great Classic] Reference
How much, if any, of this lurid testimony will ever be heard is unclear. From Wordnik.com. [The Paula Problem] Reference
The ongoing saga of Willem and Maxima isn't even the most lurid of the lot. From Wordnik.com. [Fractured Fairy Tales] Reference
When lurid tales from sex-abuse trials hit the news, parents get the jitters. From Wordnik.com. [How To Safeguard Your Own Children] Reference
Prosecutors will have some opportunity to check out Lewinsky's lurid account. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
The first Doom succeeded because of its lurid 3-D graphics and its marketing scheme. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of Doom] Reference
C-Span viewers expecting lurid revelations during last week's debate were disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture Of The Long Goodbye] Reference
These are the horror movies that self-consciously act out our societal traumas in lurid allegories. From Wordnik.com. [Bloody Good Flicks] Reference
It won't be quite as momentous as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, but it promises to be just as lurid. From Wordnik.com. [Case No. 91-5482 Comes To Trial] Reference
Yet others worried that the 527s would indeed run lurid ads about Wright — and that McCain would get the blame. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
Anderson doesn't spare us the lurid, exploitative aspects of this milieu, but his movie never feels like exploitation. From Wordnik.com. [Porn In The U.S.A.] Reference
Jimmy, transfixed by this mystery woman, makes up a lurid fantasy: she's French, she's killed someone and she's on the lam. From Wordnik.com. [Obsession By The Sea] Reference
It includes the president's sworn deposition and lurid details about Clinton's alleged trysts -- charges he emphatically denies. From Wordnik.com. ['There Are No Curtains On The Oval Office'] Reference
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