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afflatus

[ UK /ɐflˈætəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
    divine afflatus

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.
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