afflatus
Example Sentences
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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
Competitors have been trying for years to challenge Mylan’s EpiPen franchise with low-cost alternatives—only to become entangled in the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory afflatus.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
