intoxicant
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The best scenes in the movie happen during this Oxford stretch when Oliver experiences Felix as an intoxicant, and Felix’s prepster coterie experiences Oliver as an irritant.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
But that just means you have to treat this relationship as an intoxicant vs. nourishment.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2021
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
There were familiar disputes about whether De Quincey was corrupting the young, but the main intoxicant on display was his prose, which derived its power from being written in the grip of its subject.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
Not the love of woman, which was after all but an intermittent intoxicant, but the love of one's own.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
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