Both Uses of
lurid
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former's ball passed through the latter's hat) having detected a discrepancy between his name (assuming he was the person he represented himself to be and not sailing unde†
Chpt 16
- The impervious navigator heard these lurid tidings, undismayed.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected