Sentence examples for luridness from inspiring English sources

The range is limited in its palette, an odd combination of pastel loveliness with a strange artificial luridness.

Argento, by contrast, was born into a movie family: her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento, the horror-movie director and master of luridness.

Though the adults in this fight believe it to be in many senses a new fight (because they think kids today face unprecedented horrors and, in Cox Gurdon's case, because she thinks the books have an unprecedented luridness), it isn't exactly new.

We'll be right back with 'Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.' " I couldn't look the title up on the Web, couldn't know anything beyond what its luridness conjured, and there was the frightening possibility that I might never have the chance to see the movie again.

But many of the durs have serious weaknesses, the worst being that the hardness often comes off as luridness.

Rarely will you see such dancers — the speed, the phrasing, the pelvic freedom, the sexiness without luridness.

Some of this flaming luridness is exciting, but Rodriguez quickly becomes desperate.

But the biographer ultimately couldn't resist the luridness or the pathology of the material, and her informants apparently couldn't resist playing it up for her.

But the luridness of Condon's novel did not make it to the screen.

The sexual luridness of Graham's work was a mid-career development, one that accompanied her grief over aging.

The wood's near-luridness gives the piece a demonic quality and competes with its subject for our attention.