What is "inspires"

Usage examples of "inspires".

I certainly was well aware that I was not behaving in a straightforward manner, but I endeavoured to deceive myself, so true it is that a woman, weak as she is, has more influence by the feeling she inspires than man can possibly have with all his strength.

It was a difficult matter, for he cares neither for reading nor writing, music wearies him, and conversation of a lively turn inspires him with disgust.

Her husband was seated at the other end of the table--a man of a kind that inspires contempt at the first glance.

Soon it takes on a life of its own, inspires others trying to understand their own visions and hallucinations, and enters the realm of folklore, myth and legend.

However, as some circumstance might occur in which you might accuse me of not having acted towards you with all the sincerity that true love inspires, and that it has a right to demand, I have made up my mind to confide to you a secret which concerns my friend, although I am aware that he relies entirely upon my discretion.

Redegonde is all very well, and inspires me with curiosity, but what is she compared to Agatha?

I have no need to give you any further particulars, for you have guessed all except the horror with which the thought of my betrayer now inspires me.

The usual result followed, as it always does in real life, and often in romances, which, however exaggerated they may be, generally preserve a reflection of the truth which inspires them.

But in extreme situations the least delay inspires hope, as if a short respite meant sure salvation.

The beauty that inspires anger, not regret, and provokes struggle, not the idle aesthetic of a beholder.

A great science museum inspires a child to read a book, or take a course, or return to the museum again to engage in a process of discovery - and, most important, to learn the method of scientific thinking.