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Divine afflatus. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within. From Wordnik.com. [“Like a bag full of genitals."] Reference
Glenn Beck, of course, provides a divine afflatus. From Wordnik.com. [Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media] Reference
(Reading) Through me the afflatus surging and surging. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
A migratory afflatus seems to have come over the Ajawa tribes. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) GROSS: And afflatus, it sounds like flatulence. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
Wind, as figure of poetic afflatus or inspiration, is an "unseen presence". From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
His afflatus comes upon him and departs, without his control or understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
If the afflatus comes, give way, Robert; never heed me: I'll bear it this whet. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Then with an afflatus, words flow, whispered by my muse, into lines and stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of Dreaming Poetry by Peter E. Williams] Reference
Whether he may be the light within them, or an infallible afflatus, is uncertain. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
She felt in her soul the divine afflatus, and pressed forward gloriously to her goal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
Another kind of madness is not uninspired or from within, but an afflatus from without. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Chatteris, spouting his own poems, and filled with quite a Byronic afflatus as he thought. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
Secure of her audience, the widow paused as if waiting the descent of the prophetic afflatus. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get some more coffee and hope afflatus will carry me away. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
I have been filled with the Divine afflatus, and have been driven into solitude by my own thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The divine afflatus is in his nostrils; it is his spirit, and his picture is the reflex of his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
By continual introspection he is seeking the charm, so to speak, that will render his afflatus permanent. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
It is this divine afflatus, this outpouring of the Spirit, which is the great need of the age we live in. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It appears that little verse describing the poet's afflatus is written when the gods are actually with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The young people, both representing the afflatus of the State, met in one tragic look which ended in a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Only in that way can he indicate the afflatus that was carrying King on and the enmity that was retarding him. From Wordnik.com. [An American Iliad] Reference
A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
So far was the afflatus of the Spirit from being conditioned by the rite, that in Acts x. 44 ff., the gift of the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
I dont know whether you say flatus or afflatus but it sounds like theres flatulence, flatulence surging through him. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
It was more that, hard as he was on everybody else, he was harder on lyric afflatus, performance blarney, and himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Album] Reference
I also feel the poetical afflatus coming over me, and, if you like, we will set about devouring paper like two boa-constrictors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But if the poet cannot predict the time of his afflatus, he indicates that he does know the attitude of mind which will induce it. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The divine afflatus of enthusiasm buoyed her no longer. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
A poetic afflatus seized him, and in less than three hours he had added the necessary couplet. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference
But the magazines, with few exceptions, have shut down the lid, and are keeping the stylistic afflatus under strict compression. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
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