In August of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. famously referred to the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" to highlight the urgency of seeing continuity between histories of racial injustice and contemporary inequalities.

Grubert says the aim is to catch the animal, if necessary by tranquilizing it.

So I was on a tranquilizing antihistamine every day of this western.

Instead, a combination of trapping and darting can be used, with the kill administered by a lethal injection of tranquilizing drugs.

The same doesn’t apply to reading, but there is a category of book known to combine tranquilizing and entertaining properties.