luridness

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

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

Oh right, those horrid beasts tarnishing young minds with their luridness.

Starbucks and the Censored Mermaid « Colleen Anderson

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

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

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

I have a feeling, though, that there's a fair amount of covert luridness to all those poor virtuous virgins, and it worked better and worse as popular entertainment than it seems to us now.

Horses in seventh-century England

FREDRICKSON: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception.

CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007

FREDRICKSON: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception that was trying to draw people some place.

CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception, that was trying to draw people some place.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007