adrenalized
adjective
adren·al·ized
ə-ˈdre-nə-līzd 
: filled with a sudden rush of energy : excited
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Adding mightily to the swings between abandon and claustrophobic intensity is Raphaël Vandenbussche’s cinematography, like colored gravel, and Kelman Duran’s adrenalized soundscape of a score.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
It's filled with adrenalized scenes from war zones, scenes of narrow escapes and clandestine phone calls and frightening cultural misunderstandings.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
The best Meat Loaf songs – even those without Steinman’s tower-toppling compositions – come on in an epic, adrenalized rush.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
Daniel Hart’s adrenalized score, for instance, marked by solo trumpet blasts, sounds like it was pulled from a heroic race-against-time thriller.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
But, whereas chillwave hushed listeners into tranquillity, witch house had an unsettling undercurrent that jolted them awake in adrenalized terror.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
But the Dolomites region in the country’s north surprises with an adrenalized beauty even the most adventurous travelers crave.
—National Geographic, 22 Jan. 2020
Thrillers, too, have trained us to regard certain locales as settings for danger and adrenalized excitement.
—New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
Even if fighting fascists were a get-out-of-jail-free card, giving a bunch of adrenalized anarchists unilateral authority to designate fascists strikes me as an incandescently stupid idea.
—Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
It's filled with adrenalized scenes from war zones, scenes of narrow escapes and clandestine phone calls and frightening cultural misunderstandings.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011
The best Meat Loaf songs – even those without Steinman’s tower-toppling compositions – come on in an epic, adrenalized rush.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
Daniel Hart’s adrenalized score, for instance, marked by solo trumpet blasts, sounds like it was pulled from a heroic race-against-time thriller.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
But, whereas chillwave hushed listeners into tranquillity, witch house had an unsettling undercurrent that jolted them awake in adrenalized terror.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
But the Dolomites region in the country’s north surprises with an adrenalized beauty even the most adventurous travelers crave.
—National Geographic, 22 Jan. 2020
Thrillers, too, have trained us to regard certain locales as settings for danger and adrenalized excitement.
—New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
Even if fighting fascists were a get-out-of-jail-free card, giving a bunch of adrenalized anarchists unilateral authority to designate fascists strikes me as an incandescently stupid idea.
—Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
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“Adrenalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adrenalized. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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