1.   But the most engaging of the triptychs offer enigmatic narratives, sequences of disquieting glimpses like lurid images from barely remembered dreams or nightmares.

2.   France, busy colonizing Arab North Africa and the Middle East, took comfort in its cultural superiority and lurid images of peoples so unlike itself.

3.   Nash said he rejected such criticisms and maintained that his shows focused on much more than lurid images.

4.   There have not been the kind of lurid images of members of Congress frolicking on beaches that propelled legislation restricting gifts a few years ago.