1.   Betha told lurid tales of the bedroom in his songs, and lived them in his life.

2.   But by now the book is an entity larger than just its lurid tales, and it is sure to be a huge seller.

3.   Despite the lurid tales of fund-raising excess, proponents of the legislation acknowledge that they may be seven or eight votes short of the number needed to prevail.

4.   Lurid tales?

5.   Picture women in exotic dress, with their backs to the camera, telling lurid tales of abuse.

6.   Recruits tell lurid tales of superior officers assaulting them emotionally and physically in swaggering displays of consummate power.

7.   They leaked lurid sexual tales to the press.

8.   A major general and four other officers already have been arrested in the scandal, which has presented Taiwanese with lurid tales of official greed and mob influence.

9.   Beware of seatmates with lurid tales.

10.   The book tells lurid tales of people like Sister Biagina, who bore and killed two children.