| It really does take away from the potential luridness of these horror movies. |
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| In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies. |
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| Without soap-opera luridness or movie product-placement, it takes the listener a while to adjust to their low-impact pleasures. |
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| Some of this flaming luridness is exciting, but Rodriguez quickly becomes desperate. |
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| The range is limited in its palette, an odd combination of pastel loveliness with a strange artificial luridness. |
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| His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness. |
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| Its most malign expression is meanness and luridness that, so mendaciously, pretends to be fierce truth holding up a mirror to meanness and luridness. |
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| But many of the durs have serious weaknesses, the worst being that the hardness often comes off as luridness. |
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| Rarely will you see such dancers — the speed, the phrasing, the pelvic freedom, the sexiness without luridness. |
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| Argento, by contrast, was born into a movie family: her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento, the horror-movie director and master of luridness. |
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| The luridness of the author's descriptions turned off the critics. |
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