All 5 Uses of
lurid
in
The War of the Worlds
- The sun, shining through the smoke that drove up from the tops of the trees, seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Even as I beheld this a lurid green glare lit the road about me and showed the distant woods towards Addlestone.†
Chpt 1.10
- Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was marked by flashes of incandescent white, that gave place at once to a smoky dance of lurid flames.†
Chpt 1.12
- He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells.†
Chpt 1.14
- I had expected to see Sheen in ruins—I found about me the landscape, weird and lurid, of another planet.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(lurid) shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected