Sentence examples for junkie by from inspiring English sources
I'm not an adrenaline junkie by any stretch.
Opening August 6th at Film Forum, "Web Junkie," by the Israeli filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, takes us inside an Internet-addiction treatment center in Beijing, one of hundreds across China, to chronicle the ways in which technology, wealth, and autonomy are altering the ties between young people and the elders who strain to comprehend those changes.
Coaches and referees trotted over to pay their respects to Mr. Konchalski, who grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, and was already a basketball junkie by the time he was an altar boy and soon after was scouting players all over the city, for teams he helped run or coach.
His dad was "an everyday junkie" by the time he was born; he died when Rodgers was 18. "I feel like I saw him more than I actually did, but I could probably count the number of times on two hands".
I'm not an adrenaline junkie by nature and I've never got a kick out of danger – I once chickened out of the Black Hole waterslide at Minehead Butlins – so it was fitting that I should start a fortnight dedicated to exploring new backpacking experiences by doing something terrifying, simply because I was too exhausted to feel afraid.
His lyrics often inspire listeners to be that possibility junkie by making the impossible become possible.
Rainn Wilson from "The Office" took on the role of Walter White, the drug kingpin played by Cranson, while Mae Whitman ("Arrested Development") brought a gender-bending flavor in taking on the role of Jesse Pinkman, the tortured junkie played by Paul in the series.
The styles vary — hyper-surrealism by Bill Fleming for "Marihuana," steamy pseudorealism by Frank Cozzarelli for "The Junk Pusher," expressionism by Leo and Diane Dillon for "Gentleman Junkie," underground comic by R. Crumb for "Laughing Gas" — but they all share desperation or depravity, or both.
On TV and the Boards This is JOHN SPENCER'S last week playing a White House chief of staff by day and a junkie jazz trumpeter by night.
But with a fine, black-humoured Irish flourish, he saved his last gasp for a short, low-budget movie called Death's Door (2009), in which he played a dying man in a grand old house confronted by a junkie career criminal played by one of the Irish theatre's rising stars, Karl Sheils.
When a womanizing ex-junkie, played by the pop-eyed delight Natasha Lyonne, is unable to seduce a female guard, she moans, "I'm like Icarus, whose wings melted before he could fuck the sun".
