Arousing to a particular emotion or action

Usage examples of inspiration.

John Locke, from whom Adams, Jefferson, and other American patriots drew inspiration, had published some of his earliest works while a political refugee in Amsterdam.

Presumably theoreticians needed airier and lighter surroundings for inspiration.

They drew their inspiration not merely from Sozini, but from a variety of sources, for the doctrine appeared simultaneously among certain Anabaptist and Spiritualist sects.

His early style is more a new and personal approach to the Romanesque than a faithful resurrection of the Roman, and that inspiration was all around him in the Romanesque churches of Florence: the Baptistery, Santi Apostoli along the Arno, San Miniato al Monte high on a hill overlooking the city, to name a few that can still be seen today.

Better a controlled cut, unthreatening in the mutual courtesy of the Hyarke, than a Bloodletter desperate for this red inspiration, therefore dangerous in his chaos.

I shall sit in that room and see if its atmosphere brings me inspiration.

The anti-Corn Law rhymes of Ebenezer Eliot, and the Chartist songs of Ernest Jones were notable inspirations in their day, and in our own times Walt Whitman and Mr.

But Condy had caught sight of a half-filled book-shelf against the opposite wall, and had been suddenly smitten with an inspiration.

While rather an overstatement, the reference serves to illustrate at least the interchange of counterinsurgent information, if not to trace a specific inspiration for the use of the tactic in the Philippines.

Their eyes have, at all times, been bent upon the Dayspring of Thy loving-kindness, and their faces set towards the Fountainhead of Thine inspiration.

To Jerry she had given the images of tree and river, but Devi seemed to have her own sources of inspiration.

The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.

And while her success at integrating these levels might be spotty, she had experienced first hand those depths, that higher realm, where the Dreamtime and creative inspiration, the collective and the personal, the zeitgeist and the collective unconscious arise as steps in the same dance.

Gospel, which perpetrates an inversion of its spirit, Bartleffs variation is genuinely evangelical in inspiration, as befits the Erasmian fool in Christ.

Torridge for its weight in silver, and draw from thence, after the example of the Caciques of Dariena, supplies of inspiration much needed, then as now, in those Gothamite regions.