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Example sentences for: lurid

How can you use “lurid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
His torrential, lurid masterpiece Witness , a best seller in 1952 and still Ronald Reagan's favorite book in the 1980s, ranks as one of the great American autobiographies.
It's jarring to move from the lurid theatricality of "Mein Kampf " to the head-on, propless portraits of Levinthal's "Blackface" series.
Any discussion of the technology business is colored with the lurid vocabulary found mainly in Quentin Tarantino films.
She recognizes that Chambers' Witness is "one of the great American autobiographies," even a "masterpiece," yet still regards it as "torrential" and "lurid."