Sentences with phrase «lurid turns»

It's a shame the story takes a lurid turn, because it doesn't need to.

Not exact matches

Without committing spoilers, I'll say only that the repose Ustin - turned - Laurus eventually enjoys is unlikely to soothe readers with any sugary piety; the novel ends on a lurid note, as beautiful as it is macabre.

The humongous shopping bags, as well as the lurid florals and overall air of chap - turned - luxe nodded at the street markets where poor people shop and that gave the outing the frisson of political incorrectness, like Demna was making a giant mockery of the house, and all the rest.

A high - class call girl's transformation to respectability takes a lurid, shocking turn when she discovers the perverse truth about her millionaire fiance.

It could have turned into a lurid spectacle but it's also an intelligently - made crime thriller with a strong performance from Vaughn and a script that grounds the violence in emotion and devotion.

With understated grace and attention to the minutia of journalism, Spotlight sidesteps melodrama at every turn, never glorifying its reporters or wallowing in the lurid.

Like a vintage fifties melodrama, it takes lurid material, cleans it up, gives it a high gloss, and turns it toward heady and healthy emotion.

This narrative shift was an unexpected turn from a movie that was marketed, and began, as a lurid piece of sensationalism loaded with scantily clad men gyrating on eager women.

Expect other lurid side turns, fetishistic explorations, dissonant musical numbers and a host of other vaguely defined sea creatures to color the fable.

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.

At the height of the Italian giallo boom in the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid murder - mystery thrillers.

Of course, this is still an AMG, so turning of the traction control and pinning the throttle will result in some localised and very heavy fog in your rear view mirror, but such is the Merc's balance that these lurid, showboating slides are hilarious rather than heart - rate raising.

On our second lap, we exit one sweeping right turn with too much throttle, and as the differential tightens up, and we perform a lurid slide that leaves black marks on the track behind us.

Turn off the ESP, and lurid tail - out slides are there for the taking in appropriate conditions.

- Booklist «The police proceedings will keep readers turning the pages, but the final revelations and the reasons for the murders may strike some as implausibly lurid and clichéd.»

• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker» director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard of charcoal and graphite, disturber of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist

As late as 1994, the photographer and painter Marilyn Minter whose output included translating porn into canvases that drip with body fluids and lurid colour, had work turned away from Bad Girls, a survey meant to embrace feminism's contradictions.