"What sort of fiend are we dealing with?" said the quintessentially English Steed in one episode.
I don't know what they were up to, but both of them had that dope-fiend kind of way to them.
"I guess when you live in this kind of economy, everybody is fiending for every little thing they can get their hands on," he said, and took a drag of his cigarette.
In "Hannibal Rising," Harris, with characteristic perversity, gives his popular fiend the kind of "origin story" that comic-book writers bestow on their impossibly righteous superheroes: how, say, a certain caped crusader against crime acquired his steely resolve and cool paraphernalia.
This was a random test, just like the one that ensnared JR Smith Dish didn't consider him to be some kind of slack-jawed, drug-sucking fiend who needed to be monitored, he just got unlucky.
Nick Zinner's guitar-playing remains nervy and hostile, laden with as many effects as exist in the guitar shop, while Brian Chase, looking solemn and professorial, but drumming like a fiend, supplies the kind of versatile beats that span art-punk and synth-pop (he does jazz in his spare time).
She'd come to New York from Texarkana to study at Pratt, and she'd never met "a dope fiend, or a heroin addict, or any other kind of addict".
For all these reasons, there is a kind of wine collector macho about Burgundy; there are no wine snobs to equal the true nose-in-the-air Burgundy fiend.
She can hardly be blamed for her self-doubt, as that's precisely the kind of messaging she receives as a chronic pain patient, and it's easy to internalise the fear, she says, that you might become a "dope fiend".
Don't buy from eBay – eBay is a den of fiends.
