This honorific form of address, it is said, once inspired an urge to salute in Americans.

Mrs. Aquino's presidency has badly disappointed the hopes she once inspired.

His myth has been eroded, and images that once inspired have lost their power.

The environment has changed, the sounds that once inspired the band's early music have disappeared.

Probably instantly recognizable to anyone over the age of fifty, the logo once inspired a dread that had significantly eroded with time.

But he has other gifts: a quick tongue, easy charm and a singing voice that once inspired total strangers to offer him a karaoke machine.

Strephon goes on to recount the various features which once inspired his love, but now leave him cold:

It is easy to forget the excitement that Sarkozy once inspired as a figure of national renewal and transformation.

If the natural world once inspired mystical thoughts in Purdy, it now brings out his professorial side.