| What is lacking is afflatus, the breath of life that sends a thrill down the spine and gets engraved in the memory. |
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| Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy. |
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| That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms. |
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| He doesn't know much about it, but the idea has given him a powerful afflatus. |
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| What an emotional thing it is to feel the afflatus that informed the classical masters soar in a contemporary artist's work? |
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| But, though less than a poet of her century, Ella was more than a mere multiplier of her kind, and latterly she had begun to feel the old afflatus once more. |
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| His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child. |
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| Geniuses must have a wild look, their hair must be in disarray, their mind must be in torment on account of their receptivity to divine afflatus, which comes in via the hair. |
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| Overt displays of intelligence are considered just dandy in the art world so long as they are opaque enough to lend themselves to afflatus and jargoneering. |
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| Containing all the cracked eggs of the feminist litany, her soufflé rises with a poet's afflatus. |
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| While often avid for up-to-date technology, it churns academic postminimalist and conceptual aesthetics, continually resetting art's clock to a noontide — the nineteen-sixties, more or less — of nebulously utopian afflatus. |
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| China has taken over that role, and its art, though as yet lacking a Murakami to emblematize its global influence, exudes something very like imperial afflatus. |
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