afflatus

Example Sentences

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The cost of his afflatus to U.S. interests will be greater than he imagines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

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 • Jul. 15, 2019

So one picks up this novel ready to be transformed by the afflatus of its hipnicity.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2015

This channeling of distant voices parallels stories not only of how the songs were passed down among the Shakers but also of how they were received originally, through ghostly visitations and divine afflatus.

From New York Times • May 29, 2014

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

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott