Sentences with word «luridness»

The rate by which they are distributed plus the unapologetic luridness of their content makes it difficult for most users, especially those who, for some reason, treat social media as news sources, to separate fact from fiction.

Jarecki handles these scenes with distasteful luridness, figuring David's emotional traumas as toe - curling revelations in and of themselves, rather than the broken foundation upon which David attempts (and fails) to stand.

His peak had accompanied the zenith of classic Hollywood filmmaking that ended with the cultural shifts of the late 1960s, but his 1972 serial - killer movie, Frenzy, hints at how much more luridness he may have allowed himself in the new era.

Even though Fincher's gotten into a disheartening streak of adapting airport - thriller bestsellers into mediocre movies (I'm looking at you, Dragon Tattoo), he avoids that with his adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, turning that lascivious, tabloid luridness into a reflection on our obsession with that same sensationalism.

Recently some huge billboards along British Columbia's major roadways showed black - and - white photos of car wrecks — gashed and mangled metal, clouds of steam and smoke — all illumined under the luridness of fire, flares, searchlights and siren lights.

This being a Leone film, though, the proceedings are infused with a luridness that might best be called «Italian»: The bangs are big, the score (one of Ennio Morricone's most beautiful) is twangy, and the faces are craggy and huge, filling the widescreen frame completely.

There, he was trapped by the luridness and sentimentality of King's source material.

But the tango began more than a century ago as a folk dance in Argentina, crude and defiant, shaped by former slaves and European immigrants, and infused with a luridness that caused authorities to ban it in public.