Sentences with phrase «for lurid»

The artist is best known for his lurid depictions of flesh, which are usually thickly impastoed, with heavy chiaroscuro and unlikely hues.

Paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky, Mira Dancy, Emily Mae Smith and Sonia Almeida draw variously on Kogelnik's preferences for lurid hues and corporal fragmentation, while the artist's exploration of synthetic, visceral materials emulating skinlike surfaces resonates with sculptures by Alisa Baremboym, Dora Budor and Sara Greenberger Rafferty.

It continues to operate under braking but disappears under load, setting the scene for lurid oversteer as well as an arcane ability to light up the rear tires in first, second and third gears.

But that didn't prevent the big RS 6 from delivering crushing performance in a practical five - door wagon body that would almost have gone unnoticed but for its lurid Vegas Yellow paint and spine - tingling exhaust crackle.

Jim Carrey has shown ability as a dramatic actor, yet even if he seems a strange fit for this lurid and glacially paced murder mystery, he's not the reason for its failure.

Perry has the title role here (based on James Patterson's character, but on no particular book) as a brainiac detective whose legendary profiling powers have made him the go - to guy in Detroit for lurid homicides.

You can enjoy the show for the lurid twists and offbeat humor, or for its casually engrossing aura of humid menace and emotional wariness, or for the many fine performances.

Not exact matches

That may not be good enough for hard - core prophecy buffs who have the end - times all spelled out in lurid detail, but it is more than good enough for millions of other evangelical Christians.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

For all the media's demands for Church «reform,» however, one wonders whether they would welcome it, if it actually led to an increase in holiness, and offered much less material for them to write lurid headlines aboFor all the media's demands for Church «reform,» however, one wonders whether they would welcome it, if it actually led to an increase in holiness, and offered much less material for them to write lurid headlines abofor Church «reform,» however, one wonders whether they would welcome it, if it actually led to an increase in holiness, and offered much less material for them to write lurid headlines abofor them to write lurid headlines about.

For instance, since «Bush has been remarkably successful in persuading the American people to endorse a simple allegory of good and evil,» Donoghue complains, «it would be difficult, in these lurid circumstances, to read Moby - Dick as anything but a revenge play.»

, for example, there is a lurid, entirely unnecessary depiction of childhood sexuality that serves the book poorly.

The Countess of Forli is not the lurid, sensationalist expose often mistaken for real history by disaffected Catholics.

This all - veg Indian is painted in lurid saccharine pink, you are greeted by colourful bowls of fennel and sweet digestive spices for chewing after a meal.

There was the usual cross-section of MPs with lurid reputations for sexual incontinence, including Waldo Sibthorp who was reputed to sleep during the session at a brothel near the House.

The irony is that Labour in Britain has last week been attacked in absurd, lurid terms over «class war» for making the same fairness argument as Obama.

«The lurid details underlying the case — where county contracts and legislation were traded for personal favors — were laid out for all to see, leaving the public now to wonder whether even the most brazen acts are beyond the grasp of the law.»

For 45 years Specter has appeared at critical points in lurid national dramas, skipping from part to part like a pulp fiction Zelig.

No lurid pastel - coloured, diamondpatterned sweaters for them, though.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

The inquiry will also on Tuesday hear evidence from Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP, and David Mellor, the former cabinet minister responsible for the press, whose private life became the subject of lurid tabloid headlines in the early 1990s.

Demands for further reform of the Lords have swiftly followed three days of lurid headlines as Sewel allegedly described fellow peers as criminals, boasted about allowances spent on sex workers and drugs and bad - mouthed fellow parliamentarians.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned from office after sending lurid tweets, is running for mayor.

NAKED singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when our known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity?

This conviction motivates the book, but Biohistory is not a polemic, wrapped in lurid green and appealing for bottle banks.

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

And Starlet, a drama about female friendship that happened to be set against the backdrop of the San Fernando Valley porn industry, set itself apart by refusing to milk its potentially lurid milieu for titillation, comic relief, or sentimental moralizing.

For a premise with such lurid possibilities, Lars and the Real Girl is actually a sweet little comedy of romantic delusion and communal affection...

Placing style above coherence, «Seven» glosses over plot points and shows a weakness for cheap, lurid effects.

Rated R for strong lurid violence and sexual dialogue, some sexual situations, drug content and language.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

I admire Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it makes you wonder if he ever read the script.

The material could be a match for Sorrentino's sneaky thriller stylings, though perhaps a little more lurid.

And while women's rights advocates such as Betty Friedan took exception to the lurid premise of female victims being skinned alive (based on the real - life crimes of Ed Gein, who also was an inspiration for «Psycho»), a closer viewing will reveal it is probably one of the most feminist - forward - thinking horror movies ever made.

I mean, «The Neon Demon» finds entertaining new frontiers in stylishly lurid excess: If the supermodel knife fight doesn't do it for you, maybe the necrophilia masturbation scene will.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

Unfortunately, that wholesome messaging doesn't leave much room for what Brewer does best — namely, music - backed scenes that, through lurid lighting, slick camera whips and glides, and the sounds of breathing and grunting mixed just above the music, put the viewer inside a body in total abandon to a song.

As Bana's shrink presses Redgrave's furtive, fretful Rose for details about a life glimpsed in increasingly lurid fragments, you're tempted to wish all involved had abandoned the script and allowed a venerated performer to reflect on the many and happier acting opportunities that surely constitute her memories, and ours.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

This was no work - for - hire project but a production he initiated because he thought it «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

But, though you can accuse it of being lurid and maybe too soon, you can't fault the movie for being manipulative or sensationalistic.

A probing search in to the reasons for his reclusive nature is promised («He wanted nothing to come between him and his characters — they were real to him» claims one relative), and a whole segment at the end of the trailer is given over to the lurid connections between «Catcher in the Rye» and the murders it supposedly «inspired.»

A lurid, bludgeoning, and ultraviolent (i.e., routine) turn - of - the - millennium story about a hapless misfit who joins the crew of a bulging - muscled, tattooed, but savvy dealer bent on seizing control of the Reykjavik drug trade, it's sleazily enjoyable and completely amoral fare, and should make a nice calling card for Axelsson when he makes the rounds in Hollywood.

Once a funeral home and base of operations for seances of epic proportions the house still has echoes of its lurid past.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularised by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

Sean Baker's fifth feature film is bathed in orange sunlight and joyfully lurid, but the strongest element of this ultra low budget feature is its resounding empathy for all involved.

For those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seFor those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your sefor those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seat.

Cinematographer John Seale, Oscar - nominated here and more recently for Mad Max: Fury Road, uses lighting to paint sin as lurid (the red of a car light, the brown grime of the city) and goodness as pure (the uncomplicated raising of a barn).

If anything, «Death Proof» unintentionally makes the case for exploitation flicks» niche appeal with its cardboard characters and lurid set pieces.

Liam Neeson, action star, is back once again with lurid, style - overload director Jaume Collet - Serra for a whole new ridiculous thriller.