Sentence examples for filling him with from inspiring English sources

Ghosts — of people, places and rituals — accumulate and eventually dominate his narration, the fleshy bodies of women past and present filling him with tenderness and longing.

He probably had Snoke filling him with ideas of grandeur throughout his youth... ...like an evil Morgana/Morgan le Fay (Snoke was even supposed to be a woman at one point).

Having bagged a pair batting at No8 in his previous Test at Lord's against India last summer, the all-rounder thanked the caretaker coach Paul Farbrace for pushing him back up the order and filling him with confidence.

Francis Parkman, the great 19th-century historian, wrote of his youthful self, "His thoughts were always in the forest, whose features possessed his waking and sleeping dreams, filling him with vague cravings impossible to satisfy".

Sense of fair play Oluwale was educated in the late autumn of colonial rule, a Christian grammar school education filling him with notions of the benevolent, civilising nature of British power.

Promising passages are marred by clunky transitions and regrettable metaphors: after 10 hours stuck in San Luis Obispo, Vollmann's train moves at last, filling him with a "happiness as crystal-clear as a vegetarian girl's urine".

Numbers fill him with dread.

It filled him with awe and wonder.

The raids filled him with dread.

The thought filled him with guilty revulsion".

This knowledge filled him with despair.