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Most are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production — Whitehead sounds narcotized even when Pip isn’t on drugs — or the entirely new words they’ve been asked to say.

The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling.

Despite the depths of their wounds — Cusack’s Luce, a celebrated conservative author, finds her dead mother and daughter in her narcotized state — the characters are coldly drawn.

To borrow a word, it narcotizes people in search of real spiritual wisdom.

And while the Boston-born trio doled out narcotized, low-end-heavy rockers, the band took its name not from the opiate, but from “Morpheus,” the Greek god of sleep and dreams.