Example Sentences

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This plays out onstage with a level of luridness.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

“The NEA hubbub,” writes Thompson, “was an opportunity to condemn luridness and bask in it in equal measure.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2017

The luridness of street lit has made it a flashpoint, inciting controversy reminiscent of the hip-hop culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

In the extremes and luridness of her experience, she somehow embodies the modern woman’s most intimate contradictions, her more ordinary straddling of power and weakness, her irrational internal admixture of fierce warrior and abused waif.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2011

This was comforting, because half the sky was barred with leaden cloud and the parched grass gleamed beneath it lividly white, while the light that struck a ridge-top here and there had a sinister luridness.

From Blake's Burden by Bindloss, Harold