I don't complain about criticism; it's the lurid imagination of these bright young reporters that galls me.
I could kill you in so many different ways, not even your lurid imagination could come up with all of 'em.
Eloping with a lady-in-waiting, according to the more lurid imaginations.
He's a brat with a surreal, lurid imagination tied to a reckless sense of humor.
'You've been spending too much time around Salamander and his lurid imagination.'
I'll let your lurid imagination figure it out.
However, those with more, shall we say, lurid imaginations have interpreted the absence of information differently.
In my lurid young man's imagination I was two minutes late one morning, and Chapin fired me.
"There isn't any crisis going on in the White House or anywhere else except in that lurid imagination of yours."
That would have confirmed their belief that the rest of it was also the product of my lurid imagination.