Except this time, as Lewis sat drooling from the aroma of roasting turkey, he felt divinely inspired.
For some, collecting goes from hobby to holy quest, and the collector comes to feel divinely chosen by providence to amass the objects he seeks.
Catholics, for their part, seized on the divinely inspired virgin as the best answer to Marianne, the female symbol of the republic.
First, its adherents believe their mission of global conquest is divinely inspired.
To divinely timed arrival of 15 men to help remove the section of flooring to determine whether or not she was buried beneath.
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Hermit crabs are all over the atypical black sand beaches, where the sand is so dark it exudes an ominous and divinely desolate quality.
Apartheid theologians argued that South Africa was the Boers' promised land, and that any roughness used to maintain control of it was therefore divinely sanctioned.
For al Qaeda, its own fantasies and unbridled hubris coupled with its self-proclaimed, divinely ordained mission strengthen internal morale, resilience, and implacability in the face of overwhelming odds.
Al Gore and other perhaps less divinely inspired modern-day Noahs continue to speak out about an imminent threat of floods posed by rising ocean levels resulting from melting ocean and glacier ice.
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And all this is a nice reminder that the rent-versus-own ratio and its divinely inspired cousin, the capitalization rate, is perhaps the most important calculation you should make in your financial life.
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The coastal cliffs are home to a mind-boggling array of seabirds, including the ultimate crowd-pleasers: the divinely comedic puffins that arrive for the breeding season in April and depart for warmer climes in mid-August.
In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.
The presence of light-struck wash drawings of cloud-borne figures and angels by Giambattista Tiepolo proposes a reading of Degas's aerialist as a modern-day, secular version of such imagery, clearly suspended from her clenched jaw, not divinely supported.
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In discussing Islam we mean generally more or less what Muslims do in practicing their faith-tradition as they variously understand its meaning provided primarily in the Koran taken by them to be divinely revealed words to Muhammad.
They hope for an American government less parochial, less convinced of its divinely-granted exceptionalism, an administration that will ask allies for advice and counsel instead of treating them as vassel states which must always obey the hyperpower across the Atlantic.
But for the National Religious Party slightly less Orthodox but much more Zionist Mr Lubotzky's solution is anathema, for it would mean that Israel, the divinely destined Jewish state, was formally recognising as Jews people who, under Orthodox law, were still gentiles.
Another cool thing about da Vinci: He was a man of intrigue, ensconced in secret societies, his paternity unresolved (he was born out of wedlock), perhaps divinely inspired as he clashed with the Roman Catholic Church a man who seemed to defy the confinements of any simple narrative.
To understand why this 37-year-old woman is extraordinary, she must be assessed in the context of the forces pitted against her in her twin struggles to force the Western world to take note of Islam's divinely ordained enslavement of women, and to force the Islamic world to account for it.
Armed with such evidence, the Islamists then strive to persuade their heretofore peaceable and tolerant co-religionists that there is no choice but to subscribe to the most virulently intolerant interpretations of the Koran - and to join in a divinely ordered violent struggle (jihad) intended to subjugate "infidel" nations and populations.
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