The best of his stories arouse a feeling of deep foreboding.
When used as a verb, "inspire" is defined as "to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc).; e.g. To inspire confidence in others". I would suggest that inspiration instills a heightened level of vigor in a person that can fuel almost super-human powers.
In me it has often aroused a darker feeling, pity or sometimes disdain; it wasn't funny at all, I would think, there was nothing innocent in it, it was a kind of willful abnegation of judgment, of responsibility.
His public speeches were adequate and informative, but never "of a sort to arouse a warm feeling for John Sherman, the man".
"These accusations arouse nothing but a feeling of deep surprise," said Dmitry S. Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman.
"This arouses in Russian girls both a feeling of sympathy for these men, as well as a feeling of empowerment that they are better, more womanly, than Western women".
They tend to be acquaintances arranged in the intimate poses of lovers or family, and she tends to shoot them in their homes or apartments, or in the homes or apartments of other strangers, which she carefully arranges with the cluttered trifles of working- and middle-class life, producing an arousing feeling of déjà vu.
I saw a white van selling ice cream while playing music that aroused a strange, foreboding feeling in me.
And Mr. Plotnick as the petless, milquetoast Dolph can have a pleasantly aggrieved sweetness; that he goes to work in spite of having been fired does arouse a spot of feeling.
For many Iranians, the dispute over Abu Musa, a four-square-mile spit of sand with about 2,000 inhabitants and surrounded by pristine blue waters, arouses strong nationalistic feelings at a time of general hopelessness over the devastating impact of a grinding economy, foreign sanctions and a feeling of unprecedented isolation.
