Sentence examples for narcotizing from inspiring English sources

Four successive singles and two runs in the bottom of the fifth restored the roaring and drumming for the moment, but the Yankees' narcotizing David Robertson, and then Aroldis Chapman, soon had us counting outs again, while the re-silenced Indians fans waited for winter.

But if asked to relate what the two-and-half-hour production was like, I could go on about the narcotizing effect that playwright Paula Vogel's political correctness had on at least one audience member.

More than almost any other TV show, the original "Beavis and Butt-Head" was a celebration of the immersive, narcotizing effect of television, of the thrills of passive consumption.

Thursday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg that band, Warpaint, followed Ms. Mozgawa wherever she took it, its narcotizing hum swept along by a rollicking thunderstorm.

The book is sodden with sunsets, each more placidly narcotizing than the last.

If, like the many slavish devotees of "Planet Earth" and the even earlier "Blue Planet," you are susceptible to the narcotizing effect of gorgeous landscape photography and the pseudonarrative pull of cleverly edited animal behavior, then why resist?

This has power, but its tone is borrowed from the poems Cavafy wrote in free verse: resigned, almost narcotized, it suggests a speaker far from the throes and pitches that Cavafy intended for "In Despair" and that Mendelsohn so ably translates.

The analysis of culture was necessary in order to explain why the class struggle had failed to produce a socialist revolution in the Western democracies: the populace had been narcotized.

It was the position he held inside my body and, still narcotized and sluiced with postpartum hormones, I cried in recognition and sorrow.

There's a loosely interrelated, narcotized sonic continuum just outside of pop that stretches across half a century or more: drone, ambient, industrial, shoegaze.

Among the reasons to stick with "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" is the lightly narcotized sensorium of Mr. Clegg's prose.