adrenalized

/ əˈdriːnəlaɪzd /

adjective

1. tense or highly charged

   adrenalized with excitement

Example Sentences

In 2018, Cruz barely survived an out-of-nowhere challenge by Beto O’Rourke, a phenom who became a political folk hero with his edgy, adrenalized escapades.

From Los Angeles Times

But in Jason Reitman’s overstuffed, adrenalized “Saturday Night,” a dramatization of the windup to that fateful first broadcast, you don’t feel the buzzy air of revolution so much as hear the voice of present-day legacy curation getting in the way.

From Los Angeles Times

In the adrenalized aftermath of a Mike Tyson prizefight in 1996, a black BMW carrying the rapper Tupac Shakur pulled up to a red light just off the Las Vegas Strip, thrilling the women in the car next to him.

From New York Times

“It’s so immediate, and you have so many more tools at your disposal as a director to be standing inches away from your scene partner and to be able to not only give direction from within the belly of the beast but to mold the performance. I never felt overwhelmed by it. I felt quite adrenalized by it, always inspired by what was happening in that tornado.”

From Los Angeles Times

In “Make It Stop,” Jim Ruland takes his readers on an adrenalized thrill ride set in the near-distant future that in fact has a lot to say about our present health-industrial complex and its voracious appetite for profit at the expense of public welfare.

From Los Angeles Times