If my grandchildren are afflicted with cases of raging envy, at least it won't be for shotguns.
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.
In the past couple of years, the artist seems to have found a kind of equanimity, and has done his utmost to prevent disagreements over his late friend's estate degenerating into the kind of ugly feuding that have afflicted other probate cases, notably that of Jack Kerouac.
A challenge waiting is the cure of those 30% of cases afflicted with epilepsy who at the present time are refractory to therapy.
Vitamin E determinations on the EMND-afflicted cases and control horses in the prior observational studies were made at the time of disease diagnosis.
It makes the country seem less like a model and more like a basket case, afflicted by a pathology other nations strive to avoid.
Be it in Piscataway, East Rutherford or Newark, they were a reporter's dream team — uncommonly accessible and forever afflicted with a case of arrested development.
For the estimated 300,000+ Iraq and Afghanistan vets afflicted by this case, AI might appear to represent a brighter future.
With an injured and discontented Peyton Hillis, a struggling QB and a WRing corps afflicted with a case of "the drops," the Cleveland offense averaged 13 points per game.
Favreau's visuals have an inauthentic and bland blockbuster sheen, and his actors are similarly afflicted with a case of poseur-itis (Craig's affected silent-type glowering, Ford's gruff racism, or Wilde's blank, wide-eyed stares), failing to deliver a single believable line-reading or gesture".
If this is not the case, afflicted individuals may be falling at the first hurdle, so to speak, and one can understand why spatial disorientation then arises, because upstream regions that rely on good quality input cannot perform optimally to build reliable environmental representations.
