Sentences with phrase «lurid images»

In their first, and likely only, full - length interview since Williams was sentenced in October to the mandatory 25 years imprisonment, Michael Edelson and Vince Clifford said journalists inside the courtroom were being traumatized by lurid images displayed on big screens while simultaneously racing to send comments on Twitter and other instant messaging services.

17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.

And can people of faith like Buckingham actually learn how to overcome their struggles while living in a sexually - charged culture where lurid images are just a mouse - click away?

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They better start dusting off the lurid Hellfire images.

There are Churchianity buildings emblazoned with lurid scenes of a supposed image of God casting people into some burning pit of eternal torture.

We get images of lurid strip clubs, where one of the Enron executives spent his billions of loot, and we also see sober, intelligent investigative reporters telling us about mark - to - market accounting and stock options.

Mastered from recently restored elements, the fullscreen image is gorgeous, its saturated, lurid comic - book colours as vibrant as faux - life.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

In the reinterpretation of Public Image Ltd.'s «This Is Not A Love Song,» the blistering anti-pop ballad sheds its weight to become a lurid and languid shoulder - lean of sensuality.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

This is, in part, thanks to the lurid pink and purple slashes of paint on those white walls, the by - products of her recent paintings, enormous enamel - on - metal works which feature steamy, sexy, dripping images of women, often behind glass — in effect trapped, in reality free.

Beginning on Thursday, July 20, the works will be on display at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum, where visitors will have a chance to express pleasure, confusion, annoyance, consternation, revulsion, excitement and myriad other emotions that the painter's bold, colorful, lurid, humorous, anti-literal and completely irreverent images evoke.