Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hyperbolic nature of their claims interferes with their widespread acceptance, nevertheless damage has been done in the creation of a lingering impression that there is a modest measure of truth to their accusation. Unfortunately, this has been abetted by sensationalistic treatments of the field by the media, and the lurid bandwagon effect of the intellectual fashion which rides on the back of this very genuine and profound scientific revolution...
Actually, cold is not quite appropriate; queasy is better. There's something unsavory about the actions. All the mental and physical sickness, the frenetic activity, the bestial violence--in fluid drama it might contribute power, but in one that's disjointed and essentially static it's just lurid...
Despite all the lurid stories, China's crime rate is probably lower than that in most Western nations. Some observers suspect that the new campaign against crime is part of a broader movement to restore law-and-order that also includes the recent crackdown on China's tiny dissident movement. Last week Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, talking to a delegation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended the stiff 15-year sentence meted out six weeks ago to Human Rights Activist Wei Jingsheng on the ground that "we needed to make an example of him." At the same time...
...McIntosh's leering, contorted expressions and jerky, stage presence give no hint of the size, strength and confidence of his baritone voice. His solos, "Mathilde" and "Amsterdam," demand the most stamina and brashness of the Brel songs in this show, and McIntosh has plenty of both. In "Amsterdam," a lurid ballad of drunken sailors, he bellows the lines with as much force and volume as anyone would want in the small confines of the Leverett theater, yet manages to make almost every word intelligible...
...English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind all who read it that their freedom was won at the cost of blood...