Sentences with phrase «with opium»

As the 1905 photo documented, the executioner drugged a young man with opium before dismembering him with a knife.

The city became rife with opium dens and brothels.

Sherlock Holmes seems like a pretty interesting guy, what with the opium addiction, the violin playing, the crime solving, and that long - simmering erotic tension with Dr. John Watson.

French writer - director Bertrand Bonello's oblique, transgressive treatment of terrorism in Nocturama (Grade: A --RRB- positions his film as a modern - day answer to Weekend and the culmination of an informal trilogy that began with his opium - dream portrait of a fin de siècle brothel, House Of Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint Laurent.

A description of opium imports was found in the historical record from the previous year (1628), as was a note from Lord Hosokawa which read, «I am dissatisfied with the opium ordered (from Nagasaki) so it shall be returned.»

Also in India, a decoction of chile pods with opium and asafoetida was used as a cure for cholera, and tincture of Capsicum was used against malarial fevers, although we found no connection with quinine with that usage.

(The earliest written history of humanity's romance with the opium poppy is found in the writings of the Sumerians dating back to approximately 3300 B.C.)

This tension intensified particularly beginning with the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s.

Not exact matches

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.

That is why, in the twentieth century, powerful opiates and opioids (an opioid is a synthetic drug that mimics opium) were largely taboo — confined to patients with serious cancers, and often to end - of - life care.

Peace was won with a lopsided treaty that infuriated the Chinese, especially in the context of the concessions already imposed after the nineteenth century's Opium Wars.

hez316: Stalin said «Religion is the opium of the masses» i do agree with that but i am not a communist haha.

religion is the opium of the masses... and the modern day america is so... advanced that more and more people are expressing more... religious inclinations... Especially now with a «socialist» president... my oh my, people become somehow more..

Its outside critics have taxed the church with giving opium to the people, and with securing its own position as well as that of its allies by preaching contentment to the poor.

Primary among these «relationships» is the one between the two men Miss Mattie becomes engaged with in her effort to bring her father's murderer to justice; the «marshall,» Rooster Cogburn, a debouched man, given to tobacco, liquor, and the occasional opium pipe, and the young, ebullient, but rather efficacious Sharp's rifleman, the Texas Ranger.

Is religion an opium, lulling people with the promise of an afterlife, or is it a cup of coffee for the present?

Ford's technique worked and the image has since become synonymous with the house, and Opium — which was first launched in 1977 — remains one of YSL's best - known scents.

Combined with the place's Chinese - restaurant - of - yesteryear / opium - den decor, the whole experience is a trip.

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

More often or not they are intoxicated by the opium of power, they become deluded, they lose touch with reality and they are blinded by -LSB-...]

Those travelling with the PM were reportedly asked if they would remove the symbols because of the poppy's significance to the Opium Wars.

With growing anxieties about supplies of opium poppies, it could be just what the doctor ordered.

Possibly worth trillions of dollars, the minerals could help overcome the country's opium and Taliban strongholds, while also providing the world with crucial elements and minerals needed for high - tech manufacturing, such as TV displays and computer disk drives.

Like other doctors of his day, Reynolds thought cannabis might help reduce the need for opium - based painkillers, with their potential for abuse and overdose.

First the patient should be bled in the arm, or leeches may be applied to the inflamed parts; afterwards take a handful of green rue, bruise it, and put it to the part affected; or take marshmallows a handful, camomile a handful, make a decoction in a pint of water, pour the liquor from the herbs, add two drams of the tincture of opium, bathe the part; afterwards apply the herbs as a poultice, or make a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar with a little sweet oil in it.

In his work «Gymnasticos,» Filostratos (3rd - 2nd century BC) mentions that the doctors had been significantly helping the preparation of the Olympic Games athletes, and that the cooks had been preparing bread with spices from juice of the plant poppy opium.

Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.

The old gold - mining town, once bustling with saloons, brothels, gambling halls, and even opium dens, is now a ghost town, probably the most famous one in America.

The principal drugs that physicians today can offer to people with severe, persistent pain are opioids, which include both those derived from opium and others synthetically reproduced to have similar effects.

Methylnaltrexone, a drug designed to reverse one of the most troubling problems caused by opium - based analgesics without interfering with pain relief, is rapidly effective at low doses with no apparent side effects report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 19, 2000, issue of JAMA.

Why Online Dating Is The Opium Of The Masses With two out of every five singletons in Europe and the USA now turning to the internet to find a partner, it would be safe to say that the phenomenon of online dating has changed the social and dating habits of tens of millions of people from Newcastle to New York.

The film's real feat may be in its production design, in the sumptuousness and veracity with which it re-creates central Saigon and the Vietnamese countryside of the»50s: an exotic lost world of brothels and opium dens, trishaws and ao - dai dresses, Ming - deco interiors and water buffalos in rice paddies.

Christie plays the role of the opium - dependent Mrs. Miller with a mix of vulnerability and ferocious strength, while Beatty brings a bumbling, endearing quality to his performance as McCabe.

With business affairs to attend to, an opium addicted wife (Lindsay Duncan), and four children of his own, Sir Thomas has little time or affection for Fanny.

This gifted writer - director isn't out to dull the masses with cinematic opium.

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.

Ives recruits Chandler for the titular night work, and along with explorer Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), they descend into a subterranean chamber of horrors beneath an opium den.

An opium - addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese ex-pat, an escaped slave, and a teen prostitute with...

Rather than embed with just one individual or group or take only a drug war framing to the transportation of narcotics, «The Trade» follows a number of different throughlines: the boss of an opium poppy production field, addicts in various stages of treatment, police officials in Mexico City and Dayton, Ohio.

They begin with sumptuous praise and move to detailing practical production challenges (from military airfield intrusions and a game market strike to Cocteau's bouts with eczema, jaundice, and opium), quoting from the director's diary where appropriate.

There's plenty I disagree with, and I think Zhao makes some assertions that I find questionable, but it's not every book that ranges from Coca - Cola's entry into China to the Opium Wars to Beverly Hall's cheating scandal in Atlanta.

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 pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He begins with the young, privileged FDR, raised from a lineage made rich off of whale fat and opium.

In an interview with TheBookseller.com, Ghosh stated that «oil is the opium of today.»

As with many prestigious award winning books, this one has everything that makes it stand out in the eyes of a snobby, musty committee of literary judges: it's got a Victorian setting, a unknown journey, gratuitous and inexplicable violence, and opium.

We've all heard romantic stories about writers drowning in booze, painters flying high on opium and musicians «feeding the muse» with voracious promiscuity.

Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.

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.