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

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

It’s a show about conversation and ideas, and the stiffest intoxicant is English Breakfast tea.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2015

Social excitement is almost as sustaining as fanatical enthusiasm; it is the intoxicant which inflames half the actors that strut through the world's dramas of marriage, murder, or martyrdom.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis