Sentence examples for junkie with from inspiring English sources

The names of the writers will be familiar to any British media junkie with a curious bias towards rightwing hacks.

By the mid-nineties, I had her figured as a violence junkie with a strong tendency to stylize everything into stunning images that didn't always mean much.

You're talking about Egypt, and I'm talking about a shiftless fat slob with a boom box, a junkie with a dog, a mountain of stereotypes".

On the Web site Virtual Tourist, a posting in January said a woman had been "sexually assaulted" on Haight Street "by a young junkie, with several friends.

Part of his administration's goal, he said, was to replace words like "junkie" with "father or daughter or son or friend or sister".

Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a "tough junkie with a kid to protect", according to Harvey Weinstein).

Comedian Jon Glaser has had a big year: He's had big guest spots on two zeitgeist-y shows, "Girls" (as an ex-junkie with a crush on Hannah) and "Parks and Recreation" (as a councilman who hates Leslie).

The artist had been straight for six years by that point, but on the resulting album, Born to Be With You, he sounds like a junkie talking with God.

Instead of another talking hairdo dumping scores into the void, he was a junkie communing with fellow addicts.

— Sarah Larson "Bring Up the Bodies," the new Hilary Mantel novel, as I very much enjoyed the first, and am a longtime Tudor junkie, starting with "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" on "Masterpiece Theatre," back in 1970, when I was ten — although I can't get into the idiotic new series, which is vulgar without being fun.

None, however, transgressed as brazenly as Lou Reed on The Velvet Underground's debut album, where "Heroin" evoked the soothing rush of opiate in a matter-of-fact manner, and "I'm Waiting For the Man" celebrated junkie anticipation with an edgy, chugging eagerness and an eye for the telling detail – "he's never early, he's always late" – that spoke more of journalistic honesty than fantasy.