Sentences with phrase «lurid sex»

Despite the nose, or maybe even because of it, Peggy Guggenheim had a lurid sex life that she, her contemporaries and those who have written about her since, enjoyed embroidering.

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.»

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

What brought them was neither a grisly murder nor a lurid sex scandal — although, to hear the defense tell it, there was more than a little of the latter involved.

Not exact matches

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.

But at the same time they take big offence from lurid remarks from men seeking only sex or a one night stand.

Its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex - obsessed, cocaine - addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests.

It is so extreme that it almost verges on the comedic, except for the unfortunate violent way that sex is portrayed, including multiple lurid fantasies of brutal rape.

The punk rock thing was wide open and it liked lurid, vulgar material, see, so I could do a lot of gratuitous sex and violence.

The discovery led to one of the most sensational murder cases in Canadian history - a shocking and lurid tale of conspiracy, sex and betrayal.

Lurid articles about sex toys and long tiresome articles about one of the writer's personal gripes or issues.

Cyber sex, sexting, lurid Facebook messages and other forms of virtual infidelity are becoming increasingly prevalent in family law, says Andrew Feldstein in his blog for... Read more