Example Sentences

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The American archetype of bad mental-health practices is the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”: doped-up patients locked away from society to suffer and, ultimately, to perish.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2017

I also love the gag where, in order to beat a motion detector, Robert Redford must move with the deliberateness of a doped-up tortoise, slowing the “action” in this movie down to a crawl.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2012