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Example sentences for: lurid

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It's jarring to move from the lurid theatricality of "Mein Kampf " to the head-on, propless portraits of Levinthal's "Blackface" series.
Such spectacles, they contend, make a lurid mockery of their tribal rituals.
Joel Schumacher, the director of 8MM , has none of Fincher's graphic originality, but the material still carries a lurid charge.
It's got to be no fun having a lurid joke embedded in your résumé.
Elizabeth is a lurid paraphrase of the old Groucho Marx line about Doris Day: "I knew the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin."