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Перевод: lurid

[прилагательное]
огненный; пылающий; бледный; мертвенно-бледный; сенсационный; страшный; трагический; грязновато-коричневый; бурый

Тезаурус:

1. Rozanov lamented her undeserved misfortune - nurses needed a little recreation - but enthused over the lurid story, so much more interesting and poetic than, say, the American or Israeli elections.
2. After Brundle's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat, it was Mass who hunted it down, and soon engaged it in a lurid battle.
3. Some of the new work is uncomfortably stagy, some of the colour disquietingly lurid.
4. But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption, in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid, entirely hypothetical detail.
5. Mr Depardieu also delights in adding lurid colour to his teenage days on the streets of Chteauroux.
6. Yvor Winters, eschewing lurid and unstable metaphors of bloodpoisoning and leukaemia, applied the discipline of intellectual history to isolate the virus that for him too disabled American literature of the north-east.
7. At Batavia, the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh, the sky was clear, but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets.
8. The talk, in lurid detail, of filth and porn and how excruciatingly disgusting it all was, made my broad-minded friend feel nauseated and he left.
9. Nine stalls sell respectively coconut milk, bananas, rice and dried fish, steamed sweetcorn, fried chicken, lurid plastic toys, clothes and household utensils - tin-openers and toothpaste, plastic bowls and Dettol - nothing unnecessary.
10. He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest.
11. Purple and blue, the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of night, which gathers cold and low, advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amid the lightening of the sea, its thin mast written upon the sky, in lines of blood
12. In the sunken garden, orange snapdragons and pink asters, raised in the sheltered nursery beds, had been set out in lurid masses.
13. In a way, the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America, despite the reactions of the mass media which had been - like all conservative America - horrified, if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth.