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Example sentences for: lurid

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To keep the colors fresh, he dabbed the carcass with blood from a pail, then grabbed his paintbrushes to capture those lurid reds on canvas.
While the upbeat "Hitler Moves East" skirted any mention of the destruction of the European Jews, "Mein Kampf " (1993-94) explores, in lurid color--especially the Nazi colors of red and black--Hitler's crimes against humanity.
Last summer, Finkelstein published an article with the lurid title "Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'Crazy' Thesis" in the British New Left Review . Shortly afterward, it was excerpted in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and in Italy's Panorama . Goldhagen promptly denounced Finkelstein as a supporter of Hamas, a radical Islamic Palestinian group.
She recognizes that Chambers' Witness is "one of the great American autobiographies," even a "masterpiece," yet still regards it as "torrential" and "lurid."
Elizabeth is a lurid paraphrase of the old Groucho Marx line about Doris Day: "I knew the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin."