Sentences with phrase «on opium»
But what kind of alarm clock will it take to wake up people zonked out on the opium of consumerism?
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Computer scientists show that artificial neural networks can create their own «Inceptionist» artwork, a style described as reminiscent of «William Blake on opium.»
Finally, a two - channel video installation with ephemeral objects by James T. Hong plays as a counterpoint to the other works, performing the history of maritime commerce in Hong Kong with a focus on the opium trade.
We've all heard romantic stories about writers drowning in booze, painters flying high on opium and musicians «feeding the muse» with voracious promiscuity.
There are clues that explain it, but at first she really did seem so guarded and naive, especially when she learns in her job interview that Sylvie is on opium, and decides not to even mention it to Tanya.
Those extremist groups folks over there are nuttier than a snicker bar or nuttier that someone on opium in Afghanistan..
Not exact matches
On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.
Even after 15 years of occupation, opium cultivation in the country has risen, going up 10 % in 2016, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The health of Imperial Britain's coffers depended on the profitable opium - for - tea trade with the Middle Kingdom, and when the First Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent opium - for - tea trade with the Middle Kingdom, and when the First Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent east.
In fact, communism which was a political movement based on controlling masses banned religion based on their belief that religion was «the opium of the people.»
Milosz witnessed these efforts first - hand and reflected on their results: «Religion, opium for the people.
The «Bible» was written by a bunch of hermit priests sitting locked away in some monastery high on herbs, mushrooms, and / or opium writing down what the crooked Popes in Rome wanted them to write.
On the other hand, European victory in the Opium Wars meant greater opportunity for spreading the Gospel.
If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the present into the future, even in this world.
Think of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes seeking enlightenment in an opium trance; of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey meditating on a folio of Dante; or Agatha Christie's quiet Miss Marple hearing confessions at the tea table.
So Marx saw a parallel between the way the British and French used guns to force opium on the Chinese people in the mid-nineteenth century and the way the Christian church used religion to deaden the social awareness of the working people.
If God is more than a winter pipe dream, an opium for coping on our way to annihilation...!
Who let me just say, were very much on some good drugs, did you know back in those days opium was a way for them to get high, well they did nt call it this but you can do the research yourself.
Marx saw religion as a species of fantasizing, an «opium,» foisted by the ruling classes on the proletariat in order that the latter would not be able to identify its oppressors.
Islam is a ever expanding tumor on the world fuel by oil money and opium.
Egyptians used opium, the Greeks chewed willow bark and, on a mythical level, Artemis asked Zeus if she could remain an eternal virgin just so that there would be no chance of experiencing the pain of childbirth!
It was one of the houses of a guy called Lal Jan who was a prominent operator from the Ishaqzai tribe tribe in Helmand, who before the British arrived, controlled the Sanguin Bazaar where he levied a tax on most of the opium that went through it, the most lucrative thing going.
During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.
The Film House, which will be the first tenant in the new Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries in Dewitt, plans on starting to film the sci - fi picture «The Opium Wars» in September.
The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»
Tasmanian wallabies have been spotted raiding poppy fields for an opium high — but they are just the latest in a long list of animals on drugs
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Opium jugs made on Cyprus have been found in Egypt and the Levant — the first clear example of the international drug trade.
The program has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records, shifting farmers from growing poppy for opium, and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.
For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.
But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.
But also, as Matt was just talking about, the gifts that Hooke brought to the investigation of experimental philosophy were mechanical and messy and dirty and relied on your hands and knowing how to make cement and smoking enough Opium before you worked on the air pump and such.
«Opium has been around since the beginning of recorded history, and we'll likely always have opioids because they work so intimately on pain pathways,» says Gary Brenner, assistant professor in anesthesia and director of the MGH Pain Medicine Fellowship «We just need to do a better job eliminating side effects and building a bigger armamentarium of treatments — so that we can rely less on opioids.»
One that Purdue was pushing aggressively was OxyContin, which included the semi-synthetic opioid oxycodone, a morphine like drug based on elements of the opium poppy.
have an opium like effect on our brains so they not only make us feel better temporarily but they are also very addictive.
Chocolate has an action on the brain somewhat related to opium, and like other palatable sweet foods, consumption of chocolate causes the release of endorphins, your body's own internal opiates — the «feel good» hormones.
Officials blame this increase on the rise of addictive prescription drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, codeine, and Fentora, all of which are opioids (derivatives of opium).
I'm also a huge fan of their Black Opium fragrance so I need to get my hands on this for spring and summer!
If you feel that «religion is the opium of the people,» you'll feel right at home on Local Atheist Dating.
Immigrant accused of strangling widow on allotments went to buy opium.
View image Final shot, «McCabe & Mrs. Miller» (Robert Altman, 1971): The camera moves in on Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), in an opium den while snow drifts outside.
A perfume - and opium - scented reverie of dapper gigolos, neon signs, and brocaded screens, with lighting so diffuse that it looks like it would leave a powdery, luminescent residue on your fingers, the movie is barely involving as narrative and intoxicating as everything else.
The film is «From Hell,» an uncommonly creepy horror picture from the Hughes Brothers, who star Johnny Depp as an opium - smoking, possibly psychic London detective on the trail of Jack the Ripper.
In select theatres and on - demand Friday, Outcast stars one - time Golden Globe nominee Hayden Christensen — who's last five films you probably haven't heard of, much less seen — as an opium - addicted former Crusader named Jacob, hanging out in the Far East.
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Along with his Confessions of an English Opium - Eater, he is infamous for a scandalous essay about the killings: «On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.»
The best quote on the entire internet about this book is from a review by Sarah Skoletsky: «Here's my takeaway — gold mining is terrible work, opium seems pleasant, a dress weighing over 5 pounds should be looked into, and it rains a lot in New Zealand.»
This is a beautifully told story set in India, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal on the eve of the First Opium War.
Ghosh provides information on many subjects: enforced poppy cultivation in India, opium factories and the opium trade with China; opium addiction; the caste system; bore waves; foreign traders in Canton; Chinese pirates.
The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives — from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride, to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan, to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars, and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution — bound to his mysterious «soulmate,» spanning one thousand years of betrayal and intrigue.