Nevertheless, lurid reports of alleged depredations by Bogart, who was already known for his vehemently anti-Mormon stance, were readily believed by Mormon leaders and historians.

The popular press was also to play the racist card in attacks on the social security system with lurid reports of Asian families staying in luxury hotels on welfare payments.

What was once "a struggling paper of doubtful prospects", he helped La Presse to become a sensationalistic people's paper with articles on crime reporting, lurid reports with moralistic comments.

Medor, a corrupt official, listens to the policeman's lurid report but recognizes the marquise and finds a way to have her released after she promises to help further his career.

There were several lurid reports of atrocities in the border area.

He sat impatiently through a long, lurid report of another murder in Griffith Park.

Instead, the film and the accompanying album flopped, and the twin failures - accompanied by lurid reports about the singer's personal life - turned Ms. Carey into a laughingstock.

Local media made lurid reports, and diplomatic relations between the countries nosedived.

That weekend, the adoption scandal broke in Romania, when the state-run television broadcast a lurid report, showing three gypsy children in a village being sold to undercover Romanian journalists.

In the first war years they had been buoyed up, as this writer remembers, by the lurid reports of what Luftwaffe bombing had done to the enemy, especially to the British.