Sentences with phrase «on lurid»

Today, we have a media that continues to focus on lurid and scary news involving children.

«A few chapters in, it becomes clear that we are in bestseller territory, as lurid melodrama is piled on lurid melodrama, improbable coincidence on improbable coincidence, while important plot shifts are obscured by passages of excited purple prose.»

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.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, this Macbeth proves a solid entry in what must be considered the Games of Thronesification of the historical film, with an outsized emphasis on the lurid details of medieval warfare.

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.

This truth was on lurid display on Wednesday as the President laid out the broadest strokes of his upcoming tax proposal.

Not exact matches

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

I won't go into it here, but my original blog posting on this topic has all the lurid details.

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

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.

Each page was filled with confessions written on postcards by people around the world, and they were lurid, tragic, even hilarious.

At a later date, Mr. Strang had torn down from his son's bedroom wall a lurid chromo representing Jesus on the way to Golgotha.

He functions as the focal point at which the various currents of the story are concentrated into the lurid fiction of an international Jewish cabal bent on corrupting Christendom and ruling the world.

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

Deadline day came and went on Tuesday in a flurry of lurid yellow ties, desperate negotiations and angry tweets from Spurs fans and West Brom players alike.

but it's also possible that your comment reflects a perspective that some people have nowadays that unless you read every lurid story on every single blog and look at every lurid picture that everyone posts of murder victims or stillborn babies, you are somehow avoiding reality.

``... maybe you are just someone who likes to say insulting things to strangers on the internet... unless you read every lurid story on every single blog and look at every lurid picture that everyone posts of murder victims or stillborn babies, you are somehow avoiding reality»

Startthe visit not with a learned discourse on the boring theme of their visit, butrather a lurid who - is - stuffing - whom briefing on the local political scene.

The response of social democrats elsewhere in Europe has been to heap vitriol on Syriza and paint its leader, Alexis Tsipras, in the most lurid of colours.

The lurid details and high handed rows about who should know what goes on in the minister's boudoir are a distraction from the very serious question of the Ministerial code.

The inquiry will also on Tuesday hear evidence from Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP, and David Mellor, the former cabinet minister responsible for the press, whose private life became the subject of lurid tabloid headlines in the early 1990s.

As a member of the Treasury Select Committee in 2008, she failed to predict the housing bubble, dismissing suggestions from the Liberal Democrats that a recession was on the way as «lurid fiction.»

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.

Without delay I went to my local newsagent and found under the (admittedly some lurid) headlines all the attacks with the exception of The Telegraph were on Liberal (Socialist) Democrat policies and not Clegg himself.

Fat - cat GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy stepped down as Republican National Committee deputy finance chair on Friday after lurid revelations that he paid a former Playboy model $ 1.6 million in hush...

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».

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

The film retraces the steps of the bad boys and in a whodunit mystery style fills us in on all the lurid details, that also involves a clash with a wise - cracking vengeful gay Asian mobster head (Ken Jeong), an arrest by the police over the stolen police car, the smashing of the Mercedes convertible that Doug's father - in - law (Jeffrey Tambor) let his son - in - law drive and graphic photos in the end credits that further clear up the evening in question.

By the time that American cable viewers were treated to this lavish and lurid miniseries, star Alex Kingston had attained network TV stardom as one of the regulars on NBC's E.R., a fact that served only to stir up additional interest in Kingston's full - blooded portrayal of the fearless Ms. Flanders.

Winkler's New York is a crowded, bustling place, with construction work on practically ever street corner, yet it has none of the lurid, hothouse atmosphere of a Martin Scorsese film.

That's the first hint of the lurid lunacy on display.

I admire Carrey for taking on a grim and sobering project made in Krakow, Poland, that requires a range he would never be asked to show in any American sitcom, but Dark Crimes is so lurid, irrelevant and unwatchable it makes you wonder if he ever read the script.

A film drunk on its own trashy, lurid aesthetic, Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Coeur) has style to burn but not as much sense.

And while women's rights advocates such as Betty Friedan took exception to the lurid premise of female victims being skinned alive (based on the real - life crimes of Ed Gein, who also was an inspiration for «Psycho»), a closer viewing will reveal it is probably one of the most feminist - forward - thinking horror movies ever made.

But the grindhouse spirit lives on, often assuming some complex, thoughtful shapes even while delivering on a promise of lurid thrills.

The film closes on a little girl who plays JonBenét strutting down the hallway to «There She Is, Miss America,» which sums the movie up well: It's both beautiful and ridiculous, emblematic of an American obsession with over-the-top spectacle and lurid crime.

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

Our own Jessica Kiang noted that were boos scattered at her screening, and her savage review called the film a «lurid, credulity - stretching» dud, and something of a «Prisoners «- lite as it also tackles a missing child, and the consequences that fall out on her parents and those around them.

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.

As Bana's shrink presses Redgrave's furtive, fretful Rose for details about a life glimpsed in increasingly lurid fragments, you're tempted to wish all involved had abandoned the script and allowed a venerated performer to reflect on the many and happier acting opportunities that surely constitute her memories, and ours.

With its straightforward premise and a steady stream of random brutality, this lurid, corny movie, based on a trailer from 2007's Grindhouse, is almost mind - bogglingly grisly.

You could argue that this film is all lurid style over substance, but there's actually a lot going on behind the stunningly gorgeous imagery.

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.

Helmer Craig Gillespie's sweetly off - kilter film plays like a Coen brothers riff on Garrison Keillor's «Lake Woebegone» tales, defying its lurid premise with a gentle comic drama grounded in reality.

A cop procedural, lovers - on - the - run intrigue, and ultra-liberal posturing share time in a lurid gumbo before a third - act reveal; the picture's rife with flashbacks and gravid pontificating that undermine the entire shooting match.

Perry has the title role here (based on James Patterson's character, but on no particular book) as a brainiac detective whose legendary profiling powers have made him the go - to guy in Detroit for lurid homicides.

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.

Loosely based on a real person, this unhinged drama gets increasingly lurid and grisly as it progresses.

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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.