Sentences with phrase «lurid details»

Get readers involved in sharing lurid details of how they'd deal with similar situations.

With mischief including cash in brown envelopes, exotic holidays, luxury yachts, properties in the sun and call girls, the more lurid details of the case read like the plot for a Hollywood film.

The Outcome: A 42 - page dossier contains lurid details of Hutcheson's siphoning company money, hacking into personal files, and living a double life with a secret mistress and second family.

He spoke clearly and briefly, and he did not go into lurid details about how he struck out this batter with a clever fast ball on the inside corner when the batter had been expecting a slider, or how he crossed up the offense by swinging away in the eighth inning when they were expecting him to bunt, or how he expected to win even more games next year, or how he intended to murder them in the World Series with his high hard ones.

Drawing on the «precision - tooled twists» and «wellspring of authentically lurid detail» (Los Angeles magazine) that have made him one of the fastest - selling novelists at work today, Michael Connelly has written a riveting, hard - edged, and unforgettable thriller, proof that he is among «the most talented of crime writers» (The New Yorker).

On this day of thanks I am grateful for, among many blessings, the unfolding affirmation of that about which we have been warning policymakers, in lurid detail now confirmed: the global warming industry's aggressive game of Hide the Baloney.

In a series of public hearings, the titans of business and banking were confronted — in sometimes lurid detail — with the recklessness of their decision - making.

It is this human - interest side of the story, coupled with the scandalous and somewhat lurid details of how the defendants spent their ill - gotten gains, which has peaked media interest.

And while many lurid details have steadily emerged over the past several months, the trial is still likely to be an explosive one.

Along with the scissors sticking out of Eleanor's lifeless body, the two detectives find a meticulous scrapbook documenting a motive for vengeance in lurid detail.

I won't go into it here, but my original blog posting on this topic has all the lurid details.

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.

While Mr Ashley emerged victorious, lurid details in the case - which included the Sports Direct chief apparently vomiting into a fireplace after an alcohol - fuelled management meeting - have done little to enhance the businessman's reputation.

«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.»

The lurid details and high handed rows about who should know what goes on in the minister's boudoir are a distraction from the very serious question of the Ministerial code.

The film retraces the steps of the bad boys and in a whodunit mystery style fills us in on all the lurid details, that also involves a clash with a wise - cracking vengeful gay Asian mobster head (Ken Jeong), an arrest by the police over the stolen police car, the smashing of the Mercedes convertible that Doug's father - in - law (Jeffrey Tambor) let his son - in - law drive and graphic photos in the end credits that further clear up the evening in question.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, this Macbeth proves a solid entry in what must be considered the Games of Thronesification of the historical film, with an outsized emphasis on the lurid details of medieval warfare.

Director Justin Kurzel seems less interested in the lurid details of Bunting's brutal violence than he is in the complicated and alarming nature of complicity.

Or should I write it discreetly as a novel, so I can disguise the lurid details and stay out of trouble?

And, of course, in the way of all fanfic, beloved side characters die, and Darcy and Elizabeth get it on, repeatedly and in lurid detail, including with variations where theirs is a gay romance or both of them have secondary lovers.

For me, visualisation involves imagining, in lurid detail, a laughing applauding audience having a crackin» night out.

JP (RR) A 1926 was brought in to limit the lurid details of divorce cases then appearing in the press.