How To Use Narcotize In A Sentence
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Those recalling the narcotized climate of the early Obama administration won't be surprised that these other warnings were never heard underneath the waving of pom-poms and the mindless chanting of the mantra "It's not the personnel, it's the policy.
CounterPunch
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We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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Carli, unlucky at love but still hopeful, works at a deli alongside curmudgeonly Ed Asner, who serves up grouchy asides "You want a spark, chew on a lamp cord" with all the energy of a narcotized bulldog.
Roush Review: Comedy, Animated and Rehashed
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Darnielle's recollection of events, however, is anything but a narcotized blur.
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One of the movie's indelible motifs is the sight of viewers huddled together around a television set, eyes glazed over, happily narcotized by the flickering images.
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On the morning of October, 17, 2004, deeply narcotized on opiates in a hospital bed in Boston and surrounded by his wife and his children, the man dies of metastatic lung cancer, a sliver of asbestos still lodged in the periphery of his lung.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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The wounded troops flying in and out are often in misery or a narcotized stupor, while those treated with blocks remain awake and pain-free despite massive injuries.
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To some adult eyes it was an acid trip; to others it was visual Muzak, an attempt to narcotize the youngest generation of TV viewers ever.
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The potheads, though, believe she is a fink for abandoning their narcotized orbit.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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You narcotize them; they're given thorazine, they're given various kinds of medication make them a zombie.
Undefined
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He, a product of the sixties, still "care [s] about literature," while today's "narcotized" students read "inferior literature.
University Diaries
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in a stuperous narcotized state
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If you were to tell me that, someday, human beings with access to entertainment technologies will narcotize themselves on a steady drip of celebrity blather, I would tell you that you are describing March 2011.
A drug called Charlie Sheen
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Well, I just stop I guess" the narcotized looking Boyle warbled almost incoherently.
Melody Breyer-Grell: My Issue With Susan Boyle
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Postman prefers Huxley to Orwell and argues that there is no need for Big Brother to conceal anything from citizens whom technological diversion has largely narcotized.
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The second is that rather than ‘shock and awe,’ such images produce shock and numbness, compassion fatigue, and narcotized state of mind.
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We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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Or is it, as I think Jim is suggesting, that college-aged students have become so narcotized by our entertainment-obsessed culture that they don't see what may be headed their way?
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A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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Its loping beat is pretty hard to resist and I'll admit I'm a sucker for that narcotized feel.
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He used to drink in order to narcotize his persecutors, now he prays in stead.
Justin Frank: The Deepest Terror
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No navigation is available, nor is a rear-seat video system, which helps narcotize the children on long trips.
Mazda5 Says Yes to Convenience, No to Bloat
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But seeing my students and other young people narcotized with iPads and cell phones in a state in which they are oblivious to the human beings around them, makes me realize how lonely they are, trying to find a way in texting and phoning to substitute remote communication for intimacy.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future
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He explains that most black junkies really are trying to narcotize themselves against being a black man in the white man's America.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Far from dismissing mainstream studio pictures as lifeless products designed to narcotize the masses, he insisted that these pictures are suggestive of ‘what the people miss in their own lives.’
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In the experiments on narcotized rats, a decrease in the level of the registered signal was observed after an injection of a lethal dose of Nembutal.