How To Use afflatus In A Sentence
- 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.
- So, over and over, when we looked - when I looked up words in the dictionary, see where Whitman was in 1855, there was always some surprising interesting accuracy or some area like the word afflatus or flatus. Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'
- I dont know whether you say flatus or afflatus but it sounds like theres flatulence, flatulence surging through him. Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'
- divine afflatus
- Overt displays of intelligence are considered just dandy in the art world so long as they are opaque enough to lend themselves to afflatus and jargoneering.
- (Soundbite of laughter) GROSS: But afflatus of flatus actually means the miraculous communication of super natural knowledge, which kind of changes the whole feel of what hes saying there. Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'
- His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child.
- Today's liberals, especially those who run the House, came of age amid the moral afflatus of the 1960s and are determined to remake America as a European entitlement state. Rosty and Reagan
- But, though less than a poet of her century, Ella was more than a mere multiplier of her kind, and latterly she had begun to feel the old afflatus once more.
- What is lacking is afflatus, the breath of life that sends a thrill down the spine and gets engraved in the memory.
