Sentences with phrase «more lurid»

Women raped in elevators, children attacked by heroin addicts in the basement, and homeless squatters setting fire to flats were among the more lurid.

In the process, both become more lurid, less sexy, and decidedly unfunny.

The fictive world of animation, that has been revisited and expanded by the artist with new scenes that are shown for the first time, grows more lurid as the video progresses, is contrasted by the found reality of YouTube footage.

Even the more lurid clippings didn't pack much punch.

In this brave new world of Unreal Engine 4, Epic have left behind their brown and browner Gears of War colour scheme in favour of something more lurid and vibrant.

Perhaps the quickest way to grasp how much more lurid teen books have become is to compare two authors: the original Judy Blume and a younger writer recently hailed by Publishers Weekly as «this generation's Judy Blume.»

A more lurid depiction of war would have benefited the film greatly (most kills are either off - screen or obscured by distance), but the grand set pieces are far from disappointing.

IFC Films is gearing up to release Joe Swanberg's 24 Exposures, which is certainly a more violent film (if not more lurid) than we've come to expect from the prolific writer / director.

Had «Year One» — a Bible - times romp with Jack Black and Michael Cera — arrived on the heels of Ramis's «National Lampoon's Vacation» or «Groundhog Day,» he might have attempted something existential or a takedown of organized religion's more lurid, violent aspects.

The material could be a match for Sorrentino's sneaky thriller stylings, though perhaps a little more lurid.

That was the verdict last week by the chairman of the UK's Treasury Select Committee on the war being waged over the country's European Union membership, which he says has become an «arms race of ever more lurid claims and counterclaims».

«It wasn't a wife swap,» stressed Kekich to those who sought to focus on the more lurid details, which included most everyone.

His latest book is Via Crucis published in English with the more lurid title Merchants in The Temple.

He was the «earthly» son of a carpenter, and life in the first - century was both more lurid and unfinished than our collective religious memory seems to recall.

And in part it has to do with the caricature of Byzantium created during the Enlightenment by writers such Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Gibbon and made more lurid in the course of the nineteenth century.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

In one of the film's more distinctive flourishes, Akin's camera pirouettes up and over Katja's bathtub as she soaks, gradually revealing her slit wrists, as the water becomes a lurid red.

Acid 2 also looks a lot more like its namesake — the «acid» part, that is, with a lurid, surreal color palette and heavy cel - shading.

Despite its lurid title, the film scored more on the threat of violence than its actual violent content, which was minimal.

Lurid and more than a little absurd, this wild road movie is a colourful combination of violence and humour.

It's lurid and warped and more than a little dodgy, but it comes off thanks to the bravura performance — or performances — of James McAvoy, who throws himself into the role — or roles — with an admirable mix of skill and abandon.

Fans of more recent Almodovar films like The Skin I Live In or Volver should be warned about this one, because it harks back to his much cheesier 1980s films with its broad comedy, lurid...

Think of it as Bava's answer to a Hammer horror, with hysterical superstition and suspicion of outsiders replacing the lurid sexuality of Hammer's Victorian horrors and Bava's rich palette setting an altogether more expressionist atmosphere.

Indeed, seeing all three in quick succession can make it tricky to tell the films apart — a fact which made the relief of witnessing the lurid violence of Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster film Yakuza Apocalypse in the Quinzaine all the more welcome (Miike's work being the generic flipside to the national cinema developed by his compatriots).

Cinematographer John Seale, Oscar - nominated here and more recently for Mad Max: Fury Road, uses lighting to paint sin as lurid (the red of a car light, the brown grime of the city) and goodness as pure (the uncomplicated raising of a barn).

Review: Atom Egoyan's Lurid, Silly «The Captive» Starring Ryan Reynolds, Mireille Enos, Rosario Dawson & More

by Walter Chaw I think there's probably profit in taking the tactic that Tobe Hooper's The Mangler is his shot at the lurid comic book genre and, more specifically, the weird self - abnegating prosthetics opera of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.

Don't even begin to complain that Brian De Palma's dizzyingly lurid coke meltdown gets more attention than the 1932 original.

When the Costume Designers» Guild announce their nominees next week, I have no doubt that Mark Bridges» work on «The Fighter» will show up in their contemporary category — not really the right classification for a film whose lurid early - 1990s threads are as meticulously era - specific as any of 2010's more lavish period spectacles.

The lurid changing hues around the speedo, for example, are there to «coach» drivers, providing visual cues on how to drive more economically — they call it Eco Assist.

In the year 2091, society has devolved into some sort of lower life - form where empathy and compassion no longer exists and all the populace is concerned with is indulging their most lurid fantasies via the invention of Virtual Reality, or how its more commonly known, Virtuality.

In this new filing, Activision is more explicit and provides a lurid example of alleged unfairness.

Latham's lurid career featured more prominently in press reports than it did in 20th century cultural histories.

William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives Read More

At their more hectic moments, the tableaux of Kienholz seem to approach, in rather lurid - spectral fashion, a catalogue of horrors.

Among the sights are Old Masterworks from all times and places — there are allusive ties to works as different as Flemish proverb pictures (most notably, Bruegel's ironical The Parable of the Blind, 1568), Gericault's unromantic portraits of mental patients, and Sargeant's peculiarly lurid romantic paintings — none the worse for wear, and as unconsciously striking as ever, but more adult, that is, dignified by consciousness, than the Abstract Expressionism with which Desiderio began his career, and thus less beholden to the tyranny of modernism, if still symptomatic of modernity.

The sculptures that constituted «BODY PARTS & ORACLES,» Chuck Nanney's first solo exhibition in more than a decade, abide by a lurid color scheme of lime green, neon pink, scarlet, and cerulean, which cumulatively generated an electric lyricism.

More recently, Gordon's practice has moved into the studio: instead of using himself as a model, the artist composes three - dimensional collages — mostly lurid still lives and grotesque portraits — from old magazines and Internet printouts, which he then photographs.

Global warming has been stuck in neutral for more than a decade and a half, scientists are increasingly suggesting that future climate change projections are overblown, and now, arguably the greatest threat from global warming — a large and rapid sea level rise (SLR)-- has been shown overly lurid (SOL; what did you think I meant?).

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