| 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. |
| Rarely will you see such dancers — the speed, the phrasing, the pelvic freedom, the sexiness without luridness. |
| It really does take away from the potential luridness of these horror movies. |
| But many of the durs have serious weaknesses, the worst being that the hardness often comes off as luridness. |
| In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies. |
