afflatus

Religious afflatus alone, and agony, may not win a battle.

The afflatus of war, he thought ironically, was breathed upon them all.

"The afflatus of the city's bowels - now we're getting into the real body of the city."

But it can also result in a sentimental afflatus that borders on the hackneyed.

Carrie was now lightened by a touch of this divine afflatus.

Afflatus is tied to the Romantic discussion of genius.

One is born with the divine afflatus, or one is not.

It was the end of the papal afflatus.

Is it via divine afflatus, large charitable donations or shooting bankers?

By the afflatus, by the concentration of Life.

The afflatus of becoming visible saints is intoxicating.

As I felt within me the divine afflatus, I considered this accident rather fortunate than otherwise.

Hence, evidently, the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.

He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily.

My authorial afflatus was Petrarch himself.

For "once he had known that unique, unutterable afflatus of creativity, he could never take any other occupation seriously again.

Writing was always uphill work for him, and while he definitely inhaled the divine afflatus, his breath was always short.

Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god.

Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.

The afflatus of -- "It's that dead senator," Groton said, as though that clarified everything.

The frequent usage of the Aeolian harp as a symbol for the poet was a play on the renewed emphasis on afflatus.

They rode over a little stone bridge above the water-wheel and through the woods, until Nell could hear the faint afflatus of the security aerostats.

The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her 'vortex', hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.

They want to be President, they make wonderful speeches in the shower, they are lifted by the divine political afflatus, and they never make it.

But as he drew nearer the infant's blue eyes widened, and his red red lips parted, and the sapling body bent in an afflatus of anguish.