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Now I am one of the least lurid mortals, and I don't at all mind being likened to a chimpanzee.

Even more striking was the dessert, concocted out of the lurid and astringent juice of the sea-buckthorn berry.

It was whispered , by those who peered after her , that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage way of the interior.

He would never be able to face his social equals, and lurid tales of her would be told at local clubs.

cried old Roger Chillingworth, letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes.

After many lurid front page headlines, he turned up in Belgium having contemplating suicide as a way out of his depression.

On its walls are lurid murals depicting the Statue of Liberty with a ghastly skull for a face and guns decorated with the stars and stripes.

His olive military uniform is torn. There is dried blood all over it, dyed the uniform into a lurid color of scarlet.

Last week, he emerged at the center of a lurid scandal deeply embarrassing to the United States.

After three years of marriage, Kim was still questioning her husband about his lurid past.

Smith was accused of raping a woman. Mr. Smith was prosecuted in a lurid trial that fall but was acquitted.

His doomed marriage with a young actress, Robin Givens, made fodder for headlines and ended amid lurid tales of domestic violence.

But some of the most lurid headlines of the summer have come from the Greek island of Zakynthos.

Her large eyes, beaky nose and small, lurid gash of a mouth gave rise to another sobriquet : the Ugly Queen of Pop.

Generally, women's secret sexual fantasies help them enjoy sex and are nothing to feel guilty about, no matter how lurid they are.

His hatred of you burns with a lurid flame -the flame that never dies.

His revelations of financial corruption were lurid and highly exaggerated, but they had a tremendous impact.

Although the authorities accused only Google of allowing links to lurid content, similar material could be found on Baidu.

She found success by seamlessly mixing philanthropy with crass materialism (car giveaways), lurid exploitation with good deeds.

Mentioning death in polite society is considered morbid unless it's in the context of a lurid murder.

He is currently on trial for alleged sodomy of a male aide, a virtual rerun of a lurid trial in 1998 that ended in a conviction.

His camera style is stodgy, and his handling of a delicate subject lurid but not invigorating.

Unless you are the most lurid exhibitionist, I don't think having sex in front of other people is much of a turn-on.

The Washington gossip circuit was awash with increasingly lurid accounts of Edward's frequently bizarre sexual behaviour.

This paper first used "technocracy" in March 1933, when a book reviewer bemoaned the "lurid prominence" of the term.

Out go sexy dating shows and lurid programmes on crime. In come art appreciation, astronomy and weekly "morality building shows" .

The film is in lurid colors, a pulp counterpoint to the elegance of the action.

Like spilt quicksilver, hoarse growls rolled over the lurid weeds like thunders.

A fisherman waits for a bite after casting into the lurid green surface of Xingyun Lake in Yunnan.

Anyone who thinks men are only ones conjuring up lurid, graphic fantasies about other passengers on the subway is deluded.

did you see this ? " he asked , pointing to a lurid cartoon" .

The spread includes plates of nuts, salads, pastries, bowls of fruit, and bottles of vodka and lurid soft drinks.

Lurid reports in local media have included claims that she kept 16 lovers.

RED flags flutter. Hammers and sickles are daubed in lurid colours by the roadside.

Once, he found the lurid pink hat she wore when the drugs had made her hair fall out.

The misspending complaints are based on a few lurid press reports, he says.

Many of the trials have featured lurid testimony about sex, corruption and the city's violent underworld.

That was the most lurid personal incident in Lincoln's life.

The trio make lurid allegations about specific incidents.

But it is also a commentary on the lurid appeal of shopping malls, which were then multiplying quickly.

Where are the trials with lurid details of birthday parties in Morocco and $15, 000 shower curtains?

And there are far too many survivors of ghastly crimes who have told their stories in lurid terms laced with self-pity.

Some journalists like to colour their stories up with lurid detailsof people's private lives.

The thick blackness was broken by one patch of lurid light.

Equally lurid are the tales of corruption involving not just rich businessmen but also institutions of Mr Mubarak's state.

lurid details of the accident.

He is watching TV, the screen casting its lurid blue light across his face.

moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence.

And I don't know what it means, but by the sound of it, I think I want to be lurid, too.

Look at this - lurid celebrity scandals with drugs and violence. This is just tabloid journalism at its lowest.

Developing countries suffer more lurid and acute infections: malaria, tuberculosis, measles, cholera.

sensational: Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details:

Parades the marketplace, lurid and stricken

lurid photographs of the plane crash

that ' s true , he performed lurid acts upon me and my person

the lurid sky still tearing me apart