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

In “Sorry to Bother You, white voice is a dangerous intoxicant; in “BlackKkKlansman,” it is a stereotype the black man can deploy against its creators.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

It was in her veins like an intoxicant, and in her eyes like fire, and thrilled in her nerves and beat in her arteries.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe