Word Finder - inspiration

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The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.

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A breath, a single inhalation.

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A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

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The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.

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She was waiting for inspiration to write a book.

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A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.

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The trip was an inspiration to her for writing a book.

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A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

It is the main inspiration of Japanese art, which, however, shows great originality in its treatment of borrowed themes.

Inspiration is everywhere so keep your eyes open.

It has been an inspiration to his countrymen ever since.

Dean could barely wait for Cynthia to finish her conversation before he tossed out his inspiration concerning the skeleton.

Some British artists derived inspiration for their work from non-European art.

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration.

Leave a comment and share you personal design inspiration.

These restaurants draw inspiration from the world's finest cuisines and are among the finest dining venues in the country.

As a poet he had inspiration and genuine power.

There are a lot of design ideas available online for you to get inspiration from.

So just where can you go to get a little inspiration?

For inspiration, channel your inner witch and create your own look!

Their hands were cleaner but their thoughts were more impious, for they pretended to divine inspiration.

Each is said by its devotees to have been given by inspiration.

By calling on film stars, music and literature for inspiration, there is always a special story on hand about how your cat got his unique name.

Now let's look for some naming inspiration.

Make the inspiration piece the focal point in the room and display it prominently.

Your eye should be able to move from fabrics and colors in the room back to the inspiration piece with ease.

If you're looking for inspiration for a cottage chic makeover in your home, pay a visit to Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Couture.

Gustav Stickley introduced the Craftsman style in the early 1900s, taking his inspiration from many of the ideals of the English Arts & Crafts movement.

Before starting any interior decorating project, search for inspiration.

Nature, fashion, product packages, travel magazines, artwork, pieces of china, and everything else that's around you can provide inspiration.

The French, who naturally looked to German methods for inspiration, have come to apply them more particularly in the development of their cavalry and artillery, especially in that of the former, which has taken in the French army an ever higher place as its observing and thinking organ.

In effect, therefore, Mayow - who also gives a remarkably correct anatomical description of the mechanism of respiration - preceded Priestley and Lavoisier by a century in recognizing the existence of oxygen, under the guise of his spiritus nitro-aereus, as a separate entity distinct from the general mass of the air; he perceived the part it plays in combustion and in increasing the weight of the calces of metals as compared with metals themselves; and, rejecting the common notions of his time that the use of breathing is to cool the heart, or assist the passage of the blood from the right to the left side of the heart, or merely to agitate it, he saw in inspiration a mechanism for introducing oxygen into the body, where it is consumed for the production of heat and muscular activity, and even vaguely conceived of expiration as an excretory process.

Such a post set up by the priests is a god, is thrice anointed with ghee (or holy butter), and being set up beside the fire is invoked to let the offering go up to the gods .2 It is not always easy to mark off consecration from inspiration.

The chief responsibility for this rests with the worldly College of Cardinals, who were longing to return to France, and thence drew their inspiration.

In November of that year he fled in disguise from his capital to Gaeta, in the kingdom of Naples, and when French arms had made feasible his restoration to Rome in April 1850 he returned in a temper of stubborn resistance to all reform; henceforth he was no longer open to the influence of men of the type of Rossi or Rosmini, but took the inspiration of his policy from Cardinal Antonelli and the Jesuits.

Among these last may be noted his argument against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, his views as to the manner in which the five books were composed, his opinions (singularly free for the time in which he lived) on the subject of inspiration in general, and particularly as to the inspiration of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles.

Remains of sculpture, engraved bronzes and gems, show clearly the source to which the Phoenician artists went for inspiration; for example, the uraeus-frieze and the winged disk, the ankh or symbol of life, are Egyptian designs frequently imitated.

It was held that these admissions were not consistent with the views of inspiration professed by the Free Church.

And if it did not wholly succeed, the work of those who took part in it sent a breath of inspiration through the navy and gave all who took part in it a lasting name.

Dr Muir was also the author of a volume of Metrical Translations from the Sanskrit, an anonymous work on Inspiration, several works in Sanskrit, and many essays in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and elsewhere.

The universities of Oxford and Cambridge, under the inspiration of Lord William Cecil, were interesting themselves in 1910 in a scheme for establishing a Christian university in China.

Lucian the great exegete of Antioch and his school derived their inspiration from Paul, and he was through Lucian a forefather of Arianism.

We can still point to much in exact science that is absolutely his; and we can indicate infinitely more which is due to his inspiration.

The Declaration of Independence was his political chart and inspiration.

The mass of the people, as Metternich rightly observed, wished for rest, not constitutions; but the minority of thoughtful menprofessors, students, officials, many soldiersresented the dashing of the hopes of German unity aroused by the War of Liberation, and had drunk deep of the revolutionary inspiration.

Spirituality informs his inspiration; the poetry is of the finest elements, glowing and alive.

The same mode of address is familiar to us from the prophets of the Old Testament; the human personality disappears, in the moment of inspiration, behind the God by whom it is filled.

Although in theory he was an upholder of verbal inspiration, he did not push the doctrine to its extreme consequences; his practical good sense did not take these things so strictly as the theologians of later centuries.

This object he achieved, but soon his conscience smote him, and he declared these words to have been an inspiration of Satan.

His inspiration may be traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, Shelley and Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish legend and life matter apt for his romantic and often elfin music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive charm.

The magnitude of the task he had accomplished is shown by the preceding pages, and it need only be added that the transformation effected in Egypt and the Sudan, during his twenty-fout years occupancy of the British Agency, was carried out in every department under his guidance and inspiration.

Besides these works of Alfred's, the Saxon Chronicle almost certainly, and a Saxon Martyrology, of which fragments only exist, probably owe their inspiration to him.

The most satisfying of Darer's paintings done in Venice are the admirable portrait of a young man at Hampton Court (the same sitter reappears in the "Feast of Rose Garlands"), and two small pieces, one the head of a brown Italian girl modelled and painted with real breadth and simplicity, formerly in the collection of Mr Reginald Cholmondeley and now at Berlin, and the small and very striking little "Christ Crucified" with the figure relieved against the night sky, which is preserved in the Dresden Gallery and has served as model and inspiration to numberless later treatments of the theme.

Their attacks on infant baptism seemed to him not altogether irrational, and in regard to their claim to personal inspiration he said "Luther alone can decide; on the one hand let us beware of quenching the Spirit of God, and on the other of being led astray by the spirit of Satan."

Works are extant in papyri and on temple walls, treating of geography, astronomy, ritual, myths, medicine, &c. It is probable that the native priests would have been ready to ascribe the authorship or inspiration, as well as the care and protection of all their books of sacred lore to Thoth, although there were a goddess of writing (Seshit), and the ancient deified scribes Imuthes and Amenophis, and later inspired doctors Petosiris, Nechepso, &c., to be reckoned with; there are indeed some definite traces of such an attribution extant in individual cases.

His university lectures, though perhaps lacking in inspiration, were full of original research and learning.

They lay no claim to divine inspiration - they speak simply as ordinary human thinkers, though they are convinced that they have eternal truth.

A conspiracy was formed, under the inspiration of Cardinal Alberoni, first minister of Spain, and directed by the prince of Cellamare, Spanish ambassador in France, with the complicity of the duke and duchess of Maine; but in 1718 it was discovered and defeated.