He struck me as too handy with his rifle, and was, I gathered, an individual with a mysterious and rather lurid past.

"I hear you're digging into Moose County's lurid past, Homer."

Look, we mustn't get on to chattering about your lurid past.

He remains there today as a leader of the Solidarity Party, having won re-election soon after the disclosure of his lurid past.

Some of the members of your previous profession were only too pleased recalling the lurid past to notice my thumping around under their feet.

"Oh, Silas knows all about your lurid past," Katie told her carelessly, oblivious to her sharply indrawn breath, or the way her eyes darkened with pain.

And here she was, thinking about her lurid past, when she'd planned to spend her resting hours dreamwalking in search of the horny Lora's potential love bunny.

But the corollary is that Mr. Saleh has made allies, or at least beneficiaries, of men with lurid pasts, especially the Arab Afghans.

Today it contains three apartments, its lurid past put behind it.

On his first brief solo albums, Mr. Plant seemed to be deliberately distancing himself from his lurid past as the king of hard rock hedonism.