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
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
It made her gay, as an intoxicant may make one gay.
From Fidelity A Novel by Glaspell, Susan
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