Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss.
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Among the most lurid of French scandals is the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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Mr. Robot Dom's most lurid dreams aren't much stranger than her and Elliot's reality.
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" Welcome to what The New Yorker calls the most "lurid corner of the internet.
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Then, in my office, I keep all my pulps, with the most lurid covers facing out.
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But peer ahead and it is not hard to conjure up a plot worthy of the most lurid giallo-writer.
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Donald, who is thrice married, was an active participant in one of the most lurid infidelity scandals of the 20th century.
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In the summer of 2018, there will be 85033 Democrats on stage and maybe the most lurid will stand out there.
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In the summer of 2018, there will be 18 Democrats on stage and maybe the most lurid will stand out there.
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Naturally, the crimes were described in the most lurid possible way, and the number of victims that she had potentially murdered were exaggerated.
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The politics of stoking fear, then suggesting a militarized solution, isn't new, but it is playing out in its most lurid forms these days.
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OF THE explanations offered for the mysterious disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers late last year it was both the most lurid and the most plausible.
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Its most lurid manifestations lick at the edges of her narrative, which allude to such horrors as a girl dismembered on video and cooked into tamales.
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Perhaps the most lurid example is whom the government chose to prosecute: Rather than go after the police who committed the sexual torture, the state initially prosecuted the women instead.
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He has adopted a ready-made: the sinless version of Shostakovich peddled by "Testimony," supplemented by the most lurid tales from Ms. Wilson's argosy and a published letter or two.
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In perhaps the most lurid episode, Mr. López was caught in June at a convent outside Buenos Aires with a semiautomatic rifle, expensive watches and nearly $9 million in cash.
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Its most lurid tale described a Russian peasant fleeing wolves on a sled, who—unable to outpace the slavering pack—escaped by hurling her children, one by one, to their deaths.
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Further, while Kavanaugh might have wanted to keep salacious parts of the Starr report private, he himself fully participated in the independent counsel's push to uncover the most lurid details of Bill Clinton's sexual activities.
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But, as a counsellor, he clearly is powerful enough to whisper in his father-in-law's ear and diminish the prospects of rival counsellors, including those of the Administration's most lurid white nationalist, Steve Bannon.
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Qatar has struck back since the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi, giving free rein to its media, such as the satellite channel Al Jazeera, to broadcast the most lurid details of the case across the Arab world.
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The "Steele dossier," a document put together by former British spy Christopher Steele that contains some of the most lurid allegations about Trump's links to Russia, claims that the Russians have dumped money into Trump's businesses.
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Intelligence agencies have also begun to confirm the credibility, CNN and BuzzFeed News reported Friday, of some elements of a dossier assembled by a former top British spy — though not the most lurid allegations of Russian blackmail.
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In Comey's memos, Trump continually returned to the most lurid of all the allegations in the now-infamous Steele dossier: that he had paid prostitutes to urinate on a mattress in a Moscow hotel room in 2013.
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A playwright with a deep devotion to gore, he churned out some of the 17th-century's most lurid tragedies and there was nothing — books, a helmet, a tennis racket, a fart — that he didn't long to empoison.
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The idea that a video showing Trump in a compromising position involving two urinating Russian sex workers seems as outlandish as anything Trump has thrown out to the masses and is one of the most lurid theories in presidential history.
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The tabloid headlines were painful for Trump's family, but he believed that all publicity was good publicity, and so he helped concoct the most lurid headline of them all -- "Best Sex I Ever Had" -- and put it in his paramour Marla Maples' mouth.
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Despite these many qualities, "The Girls" never entirely succeeds in justifying itself—in making the case that there was anything personally or historically necessary about Cline's decision to raid the American-culture store and pluck one of the best-known and most lurid episodes from the shelf.
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A MINUS The Paranoid Style: Underworld U.S.A. (Bar/None) "We tried to figure out exactly the point of show business during this most lurid of all impasses," Elizabeth Nelson noted recently, and whether avocational indie counts as show business or not, it's clearly been a trial.
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If the convention airs the most lurid claims made about Mr. Clinton — such as the rape accusation made against him by the former Arkansas nursing home administrator Juanita Broaddrick, which Mr. Trump recently raised and Mr. Clinton's lawyer publicly denied long ago — will the shock value overwhelm live news judgment?
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But Schiele also consistently surprises, and the expansive landscape "Four Trees" (1917) is a miracle of light: its depiction of a red sun suspended amid gossamer clouds glimmers with the translucency of a stained glass window — an unsurpassable image that's miles apart from the Freudian horror show of his most lurid work.
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The first deputy attorney general, Bruce Castor, who has in effect run Ms. Kane's office the last few months, said Tuesday that investigators were still working on the most lurid aspect of the scandal: a trove of lewd pictures and sexist and racist comments that Ms. Kane discovered when she exhumed emails of her Republican predecessor's staff.
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So picture in your mind the Wikileaks email dump, but instead of the secret chatter of Democratic elites it's the deeply personal files of political activists, and instead of the New York Times and other establishment media outlets sifting through the data and publishing newsworthy excerpts, it's the alt-right media machine blasting the most lurid tidbits across Reddit.
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 20%Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Matt Lucas"Polar is pure trash, but the generousness — and, in the final stretch, the poignancy — with which Mikkelsen approaches even the most lurid of the film's conceits at least pushes it toward the top of the garbage heap," wrote Keith Uhlich for The Hollywood Reporter.
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Ludendorff > cannot be a fool, at any rate, at his own trade; for his military measures > were often very effective. But without being a fool when he effects his > measures, he becomes a most lurid and lamentable fool when he justifies > them. For in fact he could not have chosen a more unfortunate example. A > franc-tireur is emphatically not a person whose warfare is bound to disgust > any soldier.
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Soon, other newspapers had picked up on the story, with journalists offering £5 to students outside the school gates who could provide the most lurid and sensationalist accounts of the events. As a result, The Star went with the headline "Sixth Form Banned After Brandy Orgy" while Daily Express decided on "The Day my Sixth Form went Wild". Broadsheet The Daily Telegraph also reported on the story, but only gave it a few paragraphs under the title of "160 Pupils Suspended after Party".
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Bein described the song as an example of Joyryde's signature style of house music combined with trap music and hip-hop. She also highlighted Gold's vocals as standing out from the rest of the song's composition. Your EDM's Karlie Powell complimented the use of various bass music genres alongside trap and hip-hop; she said "any listener with a trained ear" would be "able to pinpoint" Joyryde's distinctive style. Bella Bagshaw, writing for Dancing Astronaut, called "Yuck" one of Joyryde's "most lurid releases to date".
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He also admitted that he had provided others with unreliable information regarding claims of sexual abuse. Though his story repeatedly changed, and he eventually disavowed most of the most lurid claims, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia eventually decided to end his case against it by paying Danny Gallaher something in the neighborhood of $5 million. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which played a large role in supporting the prosecution, opted not to comment on the Newsweek revelations. By then much of the Grand Jury material had become public, as well as police and medical reports on the main witness.
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Zhen further charged the Daoists of not fully understanding the Buddhist texts that they plagiarized. These criticisms prompted some internal Daoist reform, as the Buddhist encyclopedia Fayuan Zhulin (668) noted the replacement of Buddhist terminology in Daoist texts with more native Chinese terms. The Xiaodao Lun was the most lurid and complete account of Daoist sexual practices that anti-Daoist polemicists used to attack the religion, including group sex and partner swapping. Another argument of the Xiaodao Lun implicated Daoism in general for various peasant revolts, including the Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205), whose organizers were associated with secret Daoist societies.
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It contains a host of vivid details: sights, smells and sounds, often conveyed with loathing — but also frequently juxtaposed with a grotesque twist of humour which only serves to make it all the more moving. Leonora's ability to describe the appearance and behaviour of those she was forced to come into contact with has left a picture of a series of insignificant figures, mainly women, who would otherwise have been forgotten. One of the reasons the work has become a literary masterpiece is that the author manages to couch her account in a fine, dignified style, giving elegance and shine to even the most lurid details."Jammers minde" , Kulturkanonen.
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In July 2013, Chinese prosecution authorities charged Bo with bribery, abuse of power and corruption, paving the way for his trial. In the build-up to the trial, Song Yangbiao, a prominent leftist supporter of Bo was detained by police after he urged people to protest against the trial. The verdict and sentence brought to close one of the most lurid political scandals in the history of China under Communist rule. A few days before the trial, Wang Xuemei, a prominent forensic scientist who was vice director of the Chinese Forensic Medicine Association and of the Supreme Court's Prosecutorial Research Center, resigned from her positions.
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During 1589, Stumpp had one of the most lurid and famous werewolf trials of history. After being stretched on a rack, and before further torture commenced, he confessed to having practiced black magic since he was twelve years old. He claimed that the Devil had given him a magical belt or girdle, which enabled him to metamorphose into "the likeness of a greedy, devouring wolf, strong and mighty, with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body, and mighty paws." Removing the belt, he said, made him transform back to his human form.
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Che was said to have purchased - through a series of complex arrangements and financing through debt - the original shares of Haitong Securities and Ping'an Insurance in a case that not only implicated his father-in-law Dai Xianglong, but also was linked to the family and associates of then Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Upon the respective company's initial public offerings, Che was said to have gained a total sum of 8.8 billion yuan (~$1.3 billion). Che was also linked to Zeng Wei, son of Zeng Qinghong. Che was a major player in one of the most lurid corruption scandals during the anti-corruption crackdown under Xi Jinping.
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