How To Use Afflatus In A Sentence
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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.
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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'
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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'
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divine afflatus
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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.
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(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'
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His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child.
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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
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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.
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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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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
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Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.
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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
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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
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The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
“Like a bag full of genitals."
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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
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Glenn Beck, of course, provides a divine afflatus.
Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media
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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.
