luridly

1 the lurid lighting of a nightclub

2 This one — which opens with a luridly dressed, recently catapulted corpse being found in a treetop — is notably grislier than Pearson’s “Polar” or “True Cross.”

3 Indians were “objects of racial repulsion who represented the base instincts of humans and the devolution of humanity” and were thus luridly appealing.

4 The newspapers luridly called her a “priestess of a strange love cult” who supposedly bragged that she controlled a thousand men.

5 It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.

6 In the corner, a neat stack of American magazines features page after page of luridly sculpted men in contorted poses.

7 The films, which are at times quite violent, with clay figures being mutilated and oozing luridly colored blood, address more “hidden emotions, things that we don’t let out,” she said.

8 At the same she begins trying to sell luridly sentimental pictures of big-eyed urchins, in the midst of abstract expressionism at its most macho and heroic.

9 Besides her many cuts and bruises, though — some of them luridly three-dimensional — Helen had a concussion.

10 The lonely, lustful Jud wears a beard, stares at Laurey and collects dirty French postcards, the subjects of which come luridly to life onstage in Laurey's dream struggle between two potential sexual initiations.

11 The result is what he calls a "conservative" restoration; it's hard to see how anyone could accuse them of luridly jazzing up Leonardo's painting, although that won't stop diehard enemies of restoration from finding fault.

12 Outsiders could do worse for a patron saint, and comedy audiences will find few more luridly intimate accounts of the hedonistic lifestyle.

13 The what of Project Gucciberg is luridly straightforward, but the why is harder to answer.

14 Serialised, short, printed on flimsy paper, cheap and luridly illustrated, penny dreadfuls were issued weekly to a large eager audience.

15 When I first saw luridly ugly memes like this, in 2014 and 2015, I wasn’t sure how seriously to take them.

16 The man swore luridly, as if she’d hit his hand with a hammer.

17 The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime.

18 Put luridly, that might be a secret society of influential men and women who put tape on their ears, thud into each other with unpadded glee and drink unusual concoctions from boots.

19 It had a high ceiling and a luridly coloured square of carpet on the floor.

房间天花板很高，地上铺着一块颜色俗丽的方毯。

20 Tears leak from the corner of his eyes, and the muscles in his forearm pop luridly.

1 骇人

ghastful terrible shocking spectral scandalous frightful shockingly appallingly ghastfulness daring make flesh creep

2 骇人地

shockingly

3 大肆渲染

stick it on

4 耸人听闻

yellow scare sensational