Sentence examples for The afflictions from inspiring English sources
noun
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
The afflictions continue.
The afflictions are large and small.
The afflictions of the marble cell had become inflictions.
The afflictions of Old World diseases, war and overwork in the mines and encomiendas took a heavy toll on the inhabitants of eastern Guatemala, to the extent that indigenous population levels never recovered to their pre-conquest levels.
The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty.
Others maintained that the afflictions of poverty were environmental.
"With grace and infinite sympathy, 'Wild Decembers' encapsulates the afflictions of a culture within the afflictions of a particular doomed family," Brooke Allen wrote here last year.
With grace and infinite sympathy, "Wild Decembers" encapsulates the afflictions of a culture within the afflictions of a particular doomed family.
One way to escape the afflictions of your own place is to preoccupy yourself with another's.
Some may say that this, too, is one of the "afflictions of liberty".
It said the weak global economy had made the afflictions more acute.
