How To Use afflatus In A Sentence
- What is lacking is afflatus, the breath of life that sends a thrill down the spine and gets engraved in the memory.
- That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
- Glenn Beck, of course, provides a divine afflatus. Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media
- The rending of Pentheus on Mount Citheron by his own mother and sisters, who, while under the influence of the Bacchic _afflatus_, imagined they saw in his form the appearance of a wild beast, might be adduced as an example at once of the furious character of the frenzy, and of the liability of the afflated to optical illusions. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
- The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within. “Like a bag full of genitals."
- Europe won't allow such a debate at home but feels the moral afflatus to tax its own citizens to promote one side of the argument in America. Europe Hectors America
- He was the sum of all ambition and the centre of all importance; he was held to have achieved in the loftiest sense, and probably because he deserved to; a kind of afflatus sat upon him. The Imperialist
- Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.
- The Hitchcock piece in particular is concerned less with artistic afflatus than with locating the master of suspense in the traditions of Englishness that even his most America-centred work sprang from. I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review
- Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair.
