Sentence examples for divine fire from inspiring English sources

Creative inspiration at this level is terrifying, a kind of divine fire; it can rarely be sustained.

"Like those possessed by divine fire, Luiz Francisco is austere and simple," Veja reported in a profile last month.

The third of the book's four sections is called "The Coal," a reference to a passage from Isaiah, which young David hears, describing the purifying touch of divine fire on the lips of the prophet.

(Grode) 'You Never Can Tell' (in previews; opens on Sept. 15) George Bernard Shaw wrote this play after "Mrs. Warren's Profession," so he'd already been known for giving his women articulate wit and their own spark of divine fire.

Type historian Beatrice Warde wrote that Rogers "managed to steal the Divine Fire which glowed in the Kelmscott Press books, and somehow be the first to bring it down to earth".

I can understand why Mr. Schrader and Mr. Stollman would resist milking these scenes for tear-jerking empathy, since the fable's sardonic final twist is its suggestion that sanity, whatever that may be, robs existence of its divine fire.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

However, there have always been those who believe that discontent is a spark of the divine or Promethean fire, and "Romanticism and Its Discontents" is a compact and skillfully written book for them to take on their travels.

Some engineer, tasked with keyboard design, has again been struck by a divine retro-futurist fire: the result is a squashed array of pill-shaped keys that combine the number row with the top QWERTY row in a peculiar tea party of un-ergonomicism.

Thus, although Auriol's controversial opinions on epistemology and divine foreknowledge drew fire from Caracciolo and most other Paris theologians up to Gregory of Rimini's day, even from Oxford Franciscans, Marchia devoted much energy to foreknowledge but almost ignored the great debate over intuitive and abstractive cognition.

"Well -- God's plan, which we cannot divine, is the fire.