The lurid scene was made worse by the sucking noise of water swirling down a drain at the foot of the table.

In a bold move, she begins her program with the lurid final scene from Strauss's "Salome."

You almost have to feel sorry for Newt, especially when his then-young daughters are dragged into one particularly lurid scene.

Behind each one of those brief entries would lie a whole lurid scene of close shaves and violent battle.

Characters retreat to such mundane soap opera dialogue in the face of the most lurid scenes.

Cover artists usually worked from plot summaries or directives to render the most lurid possible scene.

I wanted to turn my back on this lurid scene, which was none of my doing.

There were new paperbacks with lurid scenes on the covers, and a few volumes that looked very old, especially some of the works in Arabic.