How To Use Lurid In A Sentence
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Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
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More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause.
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This is a fantastically good-looking car in the metal, especially when painted in the lurid shade of orange this model is sporting.
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The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
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Less than two years later, he and his partners sold their newly acquired Telluride land for $4.2 million — more than six times what federal appraisers had said it was worth.
'The Buzzard of Backcountry' Strikes It Rich in National Parks
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From the takeout near Durango, teams would bike, trek, and rappel roughly 55 miles back to Telluride.
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There were lurid allegations made, which he says are untrue.
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The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red.
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The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red.
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He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion.
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Michael Bialas: Getting An Education at Telluride Film Festival
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Its face was chalk white with lurid spots of rouge on the cheekbones.
TALES OF THE CITY
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She has a lurid past of big yellow puffa skirts, fake orange tan and nun's habit dresses.
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The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places.
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These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value.
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It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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From the dinky tin the adherent would peel back the paper lid and remove several spoonfuls of the inert powder, add tapwater, stir and watch in amazement as a lurid froth began to bubble away.
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The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book.
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Impossible to describe without using the word lurid, Leave Her to Heaven features more perverse activity than any number of more celebrated cult faves-including Nicholas Ray's infamous Joan Crawford western
New York Press
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This book will make the reader proud of the best elements of contemporary culture -- not always an easy feat to accomplish, in the face of the more lurid and cheapjack portions of modern life.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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A thermal imager uses detectors of cadmium mercury telluride, which detect infrared radiation when they are cooled to very low temperatures.
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He has been badly hurt by the accusations and lurid headlines and it will take time for him to rebuild his life.
The Sun
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He has in his grasp the ability to reduce anyone to tears, through a snappy headline or lurid story.
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His Hollywood hills living room was transformed into a lurid cross between a bordello, a crack house, a late-night talk show, and Andy Warhol's Factory.
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Lurid and Eridsen used a sodium acetate buffer with some samples, but could not obtain satisfactory results.
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The lurid image this conjures up is at odds with the reality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They separately synthesized rod-shaped nanometre scale crystal of two semi-conductors: cadmium selenide and cadmium telluride.
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You can read all the lurid details of the affair in today's paper.
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She meets me outside the hospital at the appointed hour wearing a lurid padded embroidered jacket and a long hippy dress.
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lurid details of the accident
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That's a very lurid shade of lipstick she's wearing.
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Telluride icon and professional ski bum Captain Jack Carey has long symbolized the quintessential adventurer in all of us.
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Accurate reporting takes second place to lurid detail.
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Such deals may leave those hoping for lurid accounts of life underground disappointed.
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She was wearing a lurid orange and green blouse.
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It may be lurid melodrama at heart but a compelling mania makes this Technicolor film noir hard to resist.
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But hold on, there in the distance the beam catches a lurid flash of colour.
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The MSNBC report from above is pretty kind and steers away from the delicious, gossipy luridness of what was going down — or rather ...
Archive 2008-04-01
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At the time, the national press and television was full of the lurid details of a trial of a young Canadian teacher accused of having sex with pupils.
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But Duffy has no truck with those who argue that the player, who is injury-prone and inclined to attract lurid headlines, has little left to offer the sport beyond tears and tabloid tattle.
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A description of this lurid affair would make a fitting postscript to Hunt's book.
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I admit I had a difficult time reading the review, since it focused heavily on topics that have little to do with cycling, such as color choices, "puckered" tubing, and the frighteningly intimate fitting process complete with lurid arrows:
What Happens When You Consume: Asses For You and Me
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It suggests a gloriously trashy piece of pulp exploitation, but the reality is not quite so lurid.
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Wearing a lurid pink leotard, the bar is held at head height for him to easily dance under.
The Sun
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When Ian had moved into the room, the mould-peppered walls had been decorated with lurid orange-flowered wallpaper, redolent of stack heels, flares, beads and caftans.
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Plenty of slabs of lurid brick await their first graffito.
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In a lurid incident shortly before his death, he ran into trouble with government censors.
Smithsonian Mag
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The lurid coppery glow had vanished, and the sky thickened and lowered until the darkness was as that of a late twilight.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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She gave us a lurid description of the birth.
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In a lurid incident shortly before his death, he ran into trouble with government censors.
Smithsonian Mag
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Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax!
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On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines.
In Our Town
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The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie.
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The bolts of lightning threw lurid blue patterns across the walls and the rain beat a driving staccato on the roof.
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Yes, Jack laughed and bouyed up the spirits of the Ranch while his dream castle ascended in lurid smoke that hot August night.
Jack London:Wolf House, A Unique Memorial
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Although it made for lurid headlines, the media nickname was erroneous.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
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In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of "yoof" cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of "climate crime cards", urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a "climate crime case file" in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not "commit those crimes again (or else)!
An Ominous Story
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The media seem determined not to miss any lurid detail in the unfolding drama.
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Its genius was frankly militaristic, its history is written in lurid characters before our eyes.
Annual Meeting and Ladies Night/Our Nation Considered as an Ethical Idea
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Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience.
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Such deals may leave those hoping for lurid accounts of life underground disappointed.
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The double bed has been fitted out with a lurid, multi-coloured mattress cover the hues of which are reflected in a fan-shaped mirror attached to the bedstead.
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Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers.
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She meets me outside the hospital at the appointed hour wearing a lurid padded embroidered jacket and a long hippy dress.
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Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism.
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The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Newly developed handheld gamma-ray spectrometers based on cadmium zinc telluride detectors are currently being used to detect and identify radioisotopes in a variety of security and defense applications.
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Yet instead of lurid accounts of the couple's classroom encounters, celebrity magazines have run pictures of them out strolling under captions about how happy they look.
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If, like me, you have found that movie just too lurid and sadistic for your taste, Sweet Charlotte will probably be more to your liking.
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She gave us a lurid description of the birth.
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An amalgamation and concentration mill was built at the mouth of the basin, and the concentrate was packed by mule down to Telluride.
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The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz.
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Ahead, I could make out the lurid colours of my safe haven.
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She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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These effects are sometimes too lurid to be pleasant.
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Head black, white about the eyes; antennæ testaceous; abdomen clothed with short black bristles; legs testaceous, tarsi piceous; wings grey, with a lurid tinge towards the costa; veins black, discal transverse vein nearly straight, parted by about its length from the border, and by a little more than its length from the præbrachial transverse; alulæ slightly testaceous; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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lurid flames
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The lurid image this conjures up is at odds with the reality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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When they emerge, in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colours that you want to kick them, not pick them.
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It even seems to be straying into lurid, B-movie territory as we enter an all too familiar asylum where the patients haunt the corridors, drugged or demented.
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But before you rush out to buy luridly coloured shag piles or geometric plastic furniture, bear in mind that he believes this will be retro with a twist.
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The most common minerals of gold are the tellurides, such as gold telluride, present in the mineral calavarite.
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This effect was produced by richly framed department-store chromo lithographs on the walls, aided by lurid cushion-covers, or "tidies" representing Indian maidens or chieftains in full war paint, or clusters of poppies of great boldness of hue.
T. Tembarom
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She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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The banked tiers of seats in front were in a deep gloom that contrasted sharply with the lurid light flooding the tables.
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It is a measure of Donoghue's skill that she almost completely sidesteps the tabloid luridness that stained the news accounts of those actual kidnappings.
No Exit
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Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.
Chapter 16
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But behind the lurid tales there was humanitarian tragedy and there were genuine war crimes.
The Sun
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Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life.
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In the second act he is breathing the foul and heated atmosphere of party passion and religious hate, generating the lurid fires which glare in the battailous canticles of his prose pamphlets.
Lectures and Essays
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As a promise of lurid exotica, the term “Sci-Fi” was apt in the era of magazines titling themselves with words like “amazing”, “astounding”, “thrilling”, “stirring”, “fantastic”, but over the subsequent decades the Barnumesque hyperbole has been muted for a reason.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies.
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It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
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Caplan’s willingness to embrace the darkness, however, is what makes this book so important: It articulates in lurid detail the obscene id of Chicago-school, Grover-Norquist-style, free market fundamentalism (a term Caplan spends a chapter rebutting).
Bryan Gets Some Pushback, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It's coloured in Stella's preferred palate: gun-metal greys fading into muted violets and lilacs; lurid cerises and delicate eau de nil.
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`Of course," he murmured with a Pavlovian instinct while his anxieties became more and more lurid.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Cruise, one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, would get to keep the couple's $10.5 million estate in Telluride, Colorado, as well as his three planes.
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In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
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She went on to paint a somewhat lurid picture of her father's itinerant lifestyle.
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To cash in on Spillane's success, competing paperback lines sprang up, each trying to outdo the others with lurid, sexy, painted covers and titles like "Say It With Bullets" or "Kiss My Fist!
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From this point of view, lurid media headlines can be regarded as encouraging.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, while the media have been presenting lurid pictures of the destruction wrought on Beirut by the Israeli air force, it takes Little Green Footballs to show a map illustrating how localised is the damage, the bombs targeted with considerable precision on Hizbollah strongholds.
Conflicting signals
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In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.
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View the lurid paisley patterns with extreme caution.
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Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life.
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It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort.
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On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvothe man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimesis also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers 'home.
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary
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The most common gold telluride mineral is called calaverite (AuTe2).
Tellurium
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Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience.
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The lurid colour represents the anger of violent passion.
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Flanagan creates these imaginary school-supply-closet trysts — rendering them in lurid detail — in order to set up a false choice: if it’s being treated like glass or treated like dirt, most of us would choose glass.
Letters to the Editor
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Anne checked her pulse, shuddering at the ideas behind her mother's lurid visions.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion.
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The quick, shocking flashbacks of Sethe's brutalization by her white masters don't do the job -- they're horrific, but with a B-movie luridness.
The Ghosts Of Slavery
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A thermal imager uses detectors of cadmium mercury telluride, which detect infrared radiation when they are cooled to very low temperatures.
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She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable.
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When they realised that their visitor was not looking for lurid headlines, they began opening up.
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Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms.
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She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Sydney arrived with a lurid orange mane after dying it for a hair show last week, thinking it would wash out.
The Sun
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Although the San Juans had first been prospected by trespassers on Ute lands, it was not until after the 1874 cession of the San Juans via the Brunot Treaty that serious prospecting was undertaken in what would become the Telluride area.
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Originally envisioned as an actioner built on lurid violence, including a swamp attack by huge vampire bats, the original film so turned off MGM executives it was almost entirely reshot from scratch.
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Hues are vivid and occasionally lurid: electric blues and yellows, intense magentas and reds.
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A pamphlet by Ephippus, also of Olynthus, preserved several lurid tales of luxury quoted by Athenaeus.
Alexander the Great
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Out go the puzzling proportions and lurid colours, so disastrous on pale and sunburnt skins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her reading consisted of a staple diet of lurid romances and whodunits, and her thoughts tended towards the macabre.
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I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice.
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Michael Bialas: Getting An Education at Telluride Film Festival
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It was a tattered, ring-bound thing from the early seventies with a lurid photo of some hippy, with a goatee beard and two-foot long sideburns, sitting cross-legged on the cover.
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The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is.
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The town of Telluride in Colorado was named after the element tellurium, which is often found with gold, and brought about the famous fool's gold rush in Australia.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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This lurid detail will become important in a mo.
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Both characters offer opportunities (not taken here) to ground the lurid melodrama in a more humane reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group is exploring cadmium telluride, cadmium sulfide, boron/phosphorous-doped silicon, and organic/polymeric materials and plans to assess more exotic photovoltaic materials in the future.
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It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines.
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Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail.
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She held nothing back, not even her more lurid impressions about Devereux's daughter; she was too downhearted, too frightened to dissemble.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Furthermore, while maiden Lavinia stands beside her father feeding the altars with holy fuel, she was seen, oh, horror! to catch fire in her long tresses, and burn with flickering flame in all her array, her queenly hair lit up, lit up her jewelled circlet; till, enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the palace.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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But hold on, there in the distance the beam catches a lurid flash of colour.
Times, Sunday Times
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One such complaint addressed a fish from the silurid family, which is not a kosher fish.
Yeshiva World News
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I was returned to Earth by Zeta Ray, and immediately set about writing lurid pulp novels, in order to help destroy the literary conventions and tastes of mankind: once all sense of civility vanishes from a culture, it is relatively easy to turn them into zombies.
INTERVIEW: Zombie John C. Wright
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When they realised that their visitor was not looking for lurid headlines, they began opening up.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lurid tattoo on his thigh commemorated his victory.
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There are three main thin-film technologies in production -- amorphous silicon; cadmium-telluride, known as cad tel; and copper indium gallium selenide, known as CIGS.
BCBRdaily
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Every year the Telluride Film Festival pits the movies against the mountains — how much time do you want to spend sitting in the dark when you can be out on the town, surrounded to the point of besiegement by the splendor of the Rockies?
Thin Air, Rich Fare
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The media seem determined not to miss any lurid detail in the unfolding drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely their fate carries with it lurid tales of hedonism and excessive violence?
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Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational.
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Then, when the wool was wetted, or when some other teams behind disputed the right of way in lurid terms which Lady Bridget was now beginning to accept as inevitably concomitant with bullocks, the first dray would proceed, all the cattle bells jingling and making, in the distance, not unpleasant music.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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After all, Profiler is a lurid, pulpy sort of show meant to thrill audiences tuning in on Saturday nights.
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It is quite a switch from the lurid floral print of the Stade Français jersey to the elegantly muted strip England chose to mark a centenary of international matches at Twickenham on Saturday, but Haskell's interventions suggested that he has benefited from working in a back row alongside the likes of Sergio Parisse, Mauro Bergamasco and Juan Manuel Leguizamón after a move that many thought might derail a promising international career.
The Guardian World News
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Sydney arrived with a lurid orange mane after dying it for a hair show last week, thinking it would wash out.
The Sun
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Tons of people enjoy lurid palaver on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, and your specific frame of reference is not a bit rare.
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_ Viridi-cinerea; capite testaceo, vittis tribus anticis nigris, oculis subpetiolatis; antennis nigris; thorace vittisquatuor purpureo-nigris, scutello cyaneo basi viridi, pectore fulvo; abdomine viridi-fulvo; pedibus nigris, femoribus basi luteis, tibiis luteo fasciatis; alis subcinereis, vitta costali nigricante interrupta lurida strigata, vena transversa discali fusco nebulosa; halteribus testaceis apice nigris.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life.
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And now, in manhood, my brother commits a lurid act, an act repulsive to me, one capable of arousing emotions of anger, of bitterness, of hatred.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide.
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Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
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I'm always sad that these catalogues of popular anticlericalism fail to mention James Clavell's bestselling Shogun, which luridly shows its Jesuit villain feasting on capon in one important scene.
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Mountain Village is connected to Telluride by a free, public gondola.
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It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.
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All the other times it grazed him with a lurid action beat: shock, fear, pain, adrenaline hemorrhaging, and the brimstone reek of cordite.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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The young lady in question has asked protection from local authorities to protect her from journalistic assault by the lurid press that are delving into her background.
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The gossip column adds that the nuptials will be held in September at the Lauren family ranch in Telluride, and, most importantly: "the bride will take the name 'Lauren Bush Lauren.'
Lauren Bush <![CDATA[&]]> David Lauren To Marry In September, Bride Will Become Lauren Bush Lauren
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And since the land is being parceled out piecemeal, each project will be a lurid, fenced-in recreation of First World living conditions in Third World surroundings.
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Essentially a police procedural, the film prefigures the luridness of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), but it's much closer in spirit to Otto Preminger's "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965).
Lessons Without Lectures
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Bourgeois drew on her childhood experiences for the rest of her life, and in 1974 created one of her most difficult sculptures (difficult for the spectator, that is), a big, lurid piece called Destruction of the Father, composed largely of what seem to be body parts.
Louise Bourgeois obituary
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I mean, some of those offers weren't things that I wanted to do and were taking advantage of the luridness of my situation, but I haven't really had trouble working or existing or having a career.
Paul Reubens: I'm Not Pee-Wee, I'm A Different Person
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The perverted originality of Iago's ruse, now linked to a cause, thereby loses its lurid gleam.
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His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness.
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When he was Culture Secretary, he was always sporting the lurid zigzaggy Olympic logo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Logurr, Siluridae, 3 to 4 faint punctulate longish lines.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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She even crimped her hair once, and we went lurid green with envy.
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Sexual deviance, of any kind, is a threat, and that threat must be recounted in lurid detail.
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A small part of the world's supply is obtained from the gold-silver tellurides -- calaverite, sylvanite, krennerite, and petzite.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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And like flying squirrels, these anomalurids are accomplished gliders, leaping from the tops of trees and capable of agile bends and changes of direction.
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The young leaves are purplish-green, and form a curious contrast to the deep lurid hue of the older foliage; especially when the tree is (which often occurs) dimidiate, one half the green, and the other the red shades of colours; when in full blossom, all forms a mass of yellow, diffusing
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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She took care to paint her toe nails a lurid red or orange.
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I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton.
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Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind.
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In the Victorian age, the theatre was the home of lurid melodrama for the masses.
Times, Sunday Times
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From this point of view, lurid media headlines can be regarded as encouraging.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.
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Although it made for lurid headlines, the media nickname was erroneous.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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The boiling points decrease as the size of the electronegative atom decreases from hydrogen telluride to hydrogen sulfide.
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You can read all the lurid details of the affair in today's paper.
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The tone changes from sepia to lurid.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is because beneath the lurid headlines lies a political dispute.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause.
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It may be lurid melodrama at heart but a compelling mania makes this Technicolor film noir hard to resist.
Times, Sunday Times
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it was luridly described in the book as the place where mystics took refuge
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This lurid detail will become important in a mo.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been badly hurt by the accusations and lurid headlines and it will take time for him to rebuild his life.
The Sun
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Two of the most beautiful of these are the white convolvulus, San Graal of the hedges, and the dwale – that lurid amphora where the death's-head moth, with its weird form and wings of enchanted purples, drinks under the white light of the moon and, if it is touched, cries out like a witch in a weak, strident voice.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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The colours glow lurid and vivid.
Times, Sunday Times
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His cousin was soon cursing luridly.
