But is there really such a sharp line between the respectably energizing and the shamefully narcotizing? ❋ Unknown (2009)
And there's always the narcotizing amount of vapid "reality" entertainment clogging the airwaves. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Comedy Central itself, has taken the temperature of the real world that MTV is too busy narcotizing to notice and the prognosis is next-level narrative. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The fish is not so good as that caught further down, and the natives have a habit of narcotizing it: the Silurus electricus is exceptionally plentiful. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Instead of fuming about the situation, he spent it in one of your company's labs, gengineering the modified molecular structure of an illegal but well-known and widely available epidural narcotizing agent. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)
The torpedo narcotizes the creatures that it wants to catch, overpowering them by the power of shock that is resident in its body, and feeds upon them; it also hides in the sand and mud, and catches all the creatures that swim in its way and come under its narcotizing influence. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Eventually the pain ebbed and she began to feel tranquil again; a narcotizing effect seemed to have pervaded her brain—a natural secretion of endorphins, she thought instinctively—and she felt consciousness begin to slip away. ❋ Jeri Taylor (1996)
Cold realization burst the narcotizing bubble of nostalgia. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1992)
Perhaps the combination of extended enforced rest and whatever narcotizing agent had been used on him had resulted in a heightening of his perception. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1988)
I imagine I must have felt like staying away from hustling for a while, going to some of the clubs at night, and narcotizing with my friends. ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)
The narcotizing spell had fallen suddenly from him again, and life and his future fortunes looked uninterestingly grey. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)
Druro felt the old charm of lamp-posts stealing like a delicate, narcotizing perfume over his senses as he took her hand and listened to her soft murmurs of congratulation. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)
With a view to narcotizing them while in this condition, menthol was applied to the water but did not seem to have much effect. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
It was something more than a dormant consciousness of beauty, though the knowledge that men would turn back to a face so wistful as hers, and their judgment could be dulled by a smile so narcotizing, had not a little to do with the woman's achieved serenity. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
On all but the strongest minds it casts a narcotizing spell, so that thought is arrested, and originality, vivacity, individuality become a crime -- a shame that must be hidden. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
It is still a disputed question whether the so-called "Danes 'pipes," of which I give an illustration, were made before the introduction of tobacco by Sir Walter Raleigh, or whether any other narcotizing indigenous plant may have been used. ❋ Mary Frances Cusack (1864)
