afflatus

Example Sentences

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The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her ‘vortex’, hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.

From Literature

He enhanced the model with jet travel and a visionary, indefinitely utopian afflatus like that of a Buckminster Fuller or a Marshall McLuhan.

From The New Yorker

At the same, he crucially overrides aspects of Deng’s legacy that might limit his afflatus and sense of mission.”

From New York Times

There, the Hagen never let the afflatus of passion overrule the printed markings in the music; if Brahms wrote “piano,” the playing stayed soft, no matter how amorous the feeling.

From Washington Post

But he was impelled throughout with the afflatus of Dvorak’s earthy genius and made the BSO sound like one of the prestigious European orchestras visiting the Kennedy Center.

From Washington Post