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the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation - the quality of being ghastly
- unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
How To Use luridness In A Sentence
- The MSNBC report from above is pretty kind and steers away from the delicious, gossipy luridness of what was going down — or rather ... Archive 2008-04-01
- It is a measure of Donoghue's skill that she almost completely sidesteps the tabloid luridness that stained the news accounts of those actual kidnappings. No Exit
- In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies.
- The quick, shocking flashbacks of Sethe's brutalization by her white masters don't do the job -- they're horrific, but with a B-movie luridness. The Ghosts Of Slavery
- Essentially a police procedural, the film prefigures the luridness of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), but it's much closer in spirit to Otto Preminger's "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965). Lessons Without Lectures
- I mean, some of those offers weren't things that I wanted to do and were taking advantage of the luridness of my situation, but I haven't really had trouble working or existing or having a career. Paul Reubens: I'm Not Pee-Wee, I'm A Different Person
- His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness.
- It really does take away from the potential luridness of these horror movies.
- Oh right, those horrid beasts tarnishing young minds with their luridness. Starbucks and the Censored Mermaid « Colleen Anderson
- FREDRICKSON: My issue was that the billboard had this sense of luridness and deception. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007
