Sentences with phrase «lubricated by alcohol»

Baudelaire's supreme hero, Edgar Allan Poe, whose tales he translated and whom he memorialized in two major essays, killed himself with drink, but according to Baudelaire he also enjoyed artistic triumphs lubricated by alcohol.

I like to joke that the best companies are actually lubricated by alcohol because of those after work beers and glasses of wine that become so important to getting to know people.