All 6 Uses of
lurid
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of childhood's spectrum.†
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- Blanche: Don't come in here [Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche.†
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- The shadows and lurid reflections move sinuously as flames along the wall spaces.†
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- The atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night.†
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- Lurid reflections appear on the walls in odd, sinuous shapes.†
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- The lurid reflections fade from the walls, the inhuman cries and noises die out and her own hoarse crying is calmed.†
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Definition:
shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected