Sentence examples for He has afflicted from inspiring English sources

Worse, the tenderness and compassion that animated Mr. Norman's best earlier fiction — like "Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories" and the luminous "Northern Lights" — have given way in these pages to condescension and an impatience with his characters, whom he has afflicted with bad cases of stupidity, narcissism and hard-heartedness.

BOSTON — Brett Gardner played in 145 of 147 games this season, but even he could not overcome the injury epidemic that has afflicted the Yankees.

"Tribalism is a cancer that has afflicted this country for a very long time," he said.

He rejoined 5.9secs behind after another slow pit stop, something that has afflicted him this season more often than Rosberg.

The pain intensified this week, and he thought it might be an intercostal muscle strain, an injury that has afflicted many Mets players in recent years.

He says the stability at Sony is in contrast to management upheaval that has afflicted other studios.

Although Isocrates addresses antecedents of boredom, he makes only a handful of references of this sort, suggesting that boredom has afflicted some rhetorical cultures far less than others.

He said Sanamayn's residents included displaced families uprooted by the civil war mayhem that has afflicted other parts of Syria, including some Damascus suburbs.

He acknowledged Palestinian suffering and the destruction of Gaza but attributed it to "the turmoil that has afflicted this land for decades".

He told reporters that he saw no danger of deflation — a broad decline in prices that can throttle business investment and has afflicted Japan.

Some wondered whether the five weeks he spent following Marines in Helmand Province scarred him or left him with the same type of stress that has afflicted many veterans.