Sentences with phrase «lurid aspects»
Egoyan, who has never shied away from the lurid aspects of lost innocence, takes a measured approach that successfully avoids sensationalism.
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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.
Had «Year One» — a Bible - times romp with Jack Black and Michael Cera — arrived on the heels of Ramis's «National Lampoon's Vacation» or «Groundhog Day,» he might have attempted something existential or a takedown of organized religion's more lurid, violent aspects.
Transcendental in nature, the works presented in Altered States are a part of a continuing body of work that explores the spiritual aspects of lurid and elicit behavior.