"inflames him" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to convey the idea of provocation or causing intense emotions in someone. Example: The sight of his rival's success inflames him with jealousy and bitterness.
Aguigui guessed that Roark was stealing weapons, which further inflamed him.
Privately, so as not to inflame him, several Republicans also said Mr. DeMint's departure would produce few tears among them.
In Ashton's "Dream" he found choreography that inflamed him, and the "Orpheus" Blest Spirit solo that he danced in "Kings of the Dance" (March, City Center) was a revelation of Elysian grace.
He wants revenge for his wife's death, but, when he haplessly falls into the middle of a drug deal gone bad, some of the other players, drawing on his rage, inflame him against their enemies.
Now, Mishra's responses only having further inflamed him, Ferguson is threatening the LRB's editor with litigation, telling her, he discloses: "Don't force my hand by forcing me to put it in the hands of lawyers".
What made Aschenbach follow a blond boy in "Death in Venice" in such a state of distraction that "he could no longer think of anything except this ceaseless pursuit of the object that so inflamed him"?
Werlin harvests the eggs and inseminates them with a 'specimen' that writer had trouble producing; the thought of his wife undergoing and operation did not inflame him with desire, and the porn in the bathroom was about as erotic as being slammed in the face with a brick.
"My friends all said it was dangerous and might inflame him to contact me further," she says.
Her lawyers, and the district attorney's office, implored the media not to mention her name, for fear of inflaming him.
