Example Sentences

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Toward the end, “All Our Children” loses its vital restraint and teeters into luridness, but until then it makes compelling, conventional drama.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2019

“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

But eventually I came to feel that the luridness was an act of realism.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2016

Groszinger tells reporters, apparently dismissing a genre viewed, in its luridness and fancy, not that differently from the work of the younger Vonnegut.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015

This was comforting, for 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 The Intriguers by Bindloss, Harold