inspirit

Breathing like a dragon and then opening his eyes, he could be inspirited clay, the first man.

The inspiriting Air and Space Museum is a tourist favorite, but the U.S.

“Uplifted by the titans of Mount Rushmore, we will find unity that no one expected,” he said, which is to say, inspirited by nationalist kitsch, we will whitewash history.

On the contrary, it faces up to life’s less inspiriting realities and manages to invest them with the transcendence normally reserved for our generally scarce moments of rapture.

He is blinded by comforting, inspiriting harmonies, a forceful but unseeing disturbance of the peace.