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
It’s at once intimate and epic, giddy and gloomy, a radical emotional intoxicant.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
Hamilton Burton was drunk, drunk to the core of his soul, with the strong intoxicant of self-confidence.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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