velocitized

Example Sentences

• "Freeway drivers run the risk of becoming "velocitized" after many miles of high-speed driving and temporarily lose their ability to judge car speeds."
• "We become velocitized on the expressways. We become velocitized on the expressways. Velocitized and relaxed. But our reflexes and our general ability to react have not quickened as have the cars we drive."
• "When I was driving, for instance, Jean would sit in the front seat and navigate, spot danger zones on the road ahead, and sound an occasional warning if she thought I was in danger of becoming velocitized."
• "We must be satisfied with instant poetry; after all, Instant Quaker Oats tastes just as good as the regular stuff. But if, in fact, life in a velocitized world is one of the chief reasons we are writing prolific rubbish, it becomes our duty not to capitulate, but to resist and begin to write more careful poetry, drive more slowly, and brush our teeth longer and more often."
• "Everything seemed to be moving extremely slowly, and I realized that I was still velocitized. I was still prepared to receive the world at highway speed."
• "We want to be velocitized. Speed is a drug, and not just in the old-time hepcat high of Dexedrine or bennies, those ingested, on-the-road amphetamines; or even in the newer, hi-tech crystal meth to be found, probably, in some corner of a schoolyard near you."