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
I have a feeling, though, that there's a fair amount of covert luridness to all those poor virtuous virgins, and it worked better and worse as popular entertainment than it seems to us now. Horses in seventh-century England
Without soap-opera luridness or movie product-placement, it takes the listener a while to adjust to their low-impact pleasures.
Its most malign expression is meanness and luridness that, so mendaciously, pretends to be fierce truth holding up a mirror to meanness and luridness.