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

It’s also a showcase of the manifold territory that is her style: There’s acoustic balladry, sighing neo-soul, and dance grooves that start in the hips and swirl into the head like an intoxicant.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 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

All the glamour of our yesterdays came over him like an intoxicant, and he quivered with the wonderful beauty of life that was weaving him into the large magic of the years.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)