Afflatus

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

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. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Under Mr. Genachowski ' s afflatus, the five-member commission, which is controlled by Democrats, will soon vote to " upend three decades of bipartisan and international consensus that the Internet is best able to thrive in the absence of regulation, " said FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell in a statement criticizing the chairman ' s plans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He also references the "divine afflatus," which is as good an excuse as any for linking to what, for a few months at least, was my favorite mural in all of Boston. posted by Matthew @ 12: 35 PM ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

I dont know whether you say flatus or afflatus but it sounds like theres flatulence, flatulence surging through him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Reading) Through me the afflatus surging and surging ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Soundbite of laughter) GROSS: And afflatus, it sounds like flatulence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wind, as figure of poetic afflatus or inspiration, is an "unseen presence" ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Glenn Beck, of course, provides a divine afflatus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I personally don't know how I ever got along without mine-BackWurdz-a brainy sort of chap who is always finding rhymes for words that I come up with when the divine afflatus starts to inflate me, but doesn't finish the job. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In other words, the FDA's regulatory afflatus is more important than options for actual patients with a deadly cancer who are informed of the risks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reviewing Jong's Fear of Flying, Updike wrote, "Containing all the cracked eggs of the feminist litany, her soufflé rises with a poet's afflatus." ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was insistent that her desire for him was afflatuated since his [output] was [pungent] and [frequent]. ❋ Larry Chair (2010)