Sentences with phrase «takes lurid»

This exhibition takes a lurid approach to what is normally considered decorative architecture, re-thinking the female form through its role in classical objects of function; a Venetian Moore lamp, a stool, a vanity, a mirror, a chandelier and tapestry.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Whatever is meant here by being taken or left, these sayings do not justify the lurid ideas of the «rapture» sometimes inferred from them and from what Paul says in I Thessalonians 4:17.

Shattered's most lurid revelation is that, after her 2008 loss to Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton and her husband devised a loyalty scale by which they measured Democratic members of Congress — and then took systematic revenge against those who were either not supportive in the 2008 primary contest with Obama or insufficiently supportive.

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

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.

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.

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

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.

Taking its name from the yellow covers of lurid Italian paperbacks, films in this genre split, broadly, into two sub-categories: the ones that give a passing nod to ratiocination; and the ones that don't bother to make any rational sense at all.

People are strange: «Strange things happen there,» Papillon is told as a swirl of lurid hallucinations take the screen

If only the film itself weren't marred by trying to win over viewers in taking already bad events and hyperbolizing their lurid content to make their side unimpeachable.

James McAvoy takes a depraved walk on the wild side in this gleefully lurid adaptation of a cult novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.

Egoyan, who has never shied away from the lurid aspects of lost innocence, takes a measured approach that successfully avoids sensationalism.

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.

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.

As much as we adore «Far From Heaven,» there is an archness to it that «Carol» feels like it has moved beyond, as though having experimented with that format, Haynes has taken similar material, and with help from Phyllis Nagy «s excellent, understated script, drained it of even the hint of lurid excess or heightened pitch.

From director Trent Haaga, 68 Kill is a lurid black comedy which will take you on a murderous road trip; pure trailer - park trash with a sleazy punk rock edge, and plenty of violent shocks along the way.

A high, thin whisper of impending doom slowly took over at the base of my skull, painting lurid scenes of our bleached bones being strewn across the arid expanses of West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona by coyotes.

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

One might just as well take his paintings as a sort of diagram of relationships and desires, of all those unsaid words and regrets that pile up in the English mind, and let the people remain eggs, lurid foetal blobs, intrusive penises, amoebas, and what have you.

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

Decapitations, tooth - pullings, chargrillings... the lurid deaths of saints in paintings were what caught Michael Landy's eye when he took over as artist - in - residence at the National Gallery.