intoxicant

Example Sentences

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But that just means you have to treat this relationship as an intoxicant vs. nourishment.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

The crowd has been compared to an electric spark, a dance partner, an intoxicant and a character in and of itself.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2020

Music is an intoxicant and a revelation, an accompaniment to mourning and to celebration; it bears the marks of both Apollo and Dionysus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2018

Such temptations, along with the dangerous intoxicant that is music, had, he felt, caused the fall of Greece and Rome.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

Such love was the intoxicant necessary to transfigure life to the point where all things, even work, look beautiful.

From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)