David Maisel

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

American Businessman

Nancy Garden

When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

American Writer

Lydia Millet

Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate.

American Novelist

Chinua Achebe

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Nigerian Writer

Sarah Weinman

My one criticism of Vertigo Crime to date is that it's been a boys' club, reveling in violence that, while entertainingly lurid, lacks depth. Of course, the comics world is deliberately double-dimensional - and shouldn't apologize for being so.

American Journalist

Camille Paglia

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

American Author

Ron Reagan

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

Lawrence Osborne

Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.

British Novelist

Noel Fielding

I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television - a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.

English Comedian

Sophie Dahl

I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

English Model

Lurid often implies an overwhelming, almost aggressive intensity that can be visually off-putting or tasteless.

Intensity Overload

Use 'lurid' to describe things that grab attention because they are unusually vivid or shocking.

Attention Grabbing

'Lurid' is often used negatively to critique something as being in poor taste or excessive.

Negative Undertone

'Lurid' can suggest that a story is presented in a sensational way to provoke public interest or excitement at the expense of accuracy.

Sensationalism Alert

In a literary sense, 'lurid' can refer to overly graphic or detailed descriptions of violence or sexuality.

Graphic Imagery

'Lurid' can evoke strong emotions, as it often pertains to details meant to shock or disturb the reader or viewer.

Emotional Impact

 The problem was that they listened to the wrong story. Of all the narratives their fears wrote, they responded only to the most lurid, the most vivid, the one that was easiest for their imaginations to cannibals. But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears

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 happens from now on is crucial to build their strength flamingoes need to eat and surprisingly enough the lurid green waters are chock-full of bacteria rich in essential nutrients these birds feed in an extraordinary way gulping water and pumping it out through

Flamingo Attacked by...

 judge Clarence Thomas faces lurid accusations at a Senate hearing and for the first time the CD world of pornography is dragged onto a very public stage he used the name that he had been referred to in the pornographic

Clarence Thomas Hearing...

 "Order, order. So who do we have here?" "Your Honor, this is Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen whose lurid affairs destroyed two of Rome's finest generals