The phrase "affliction of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific type of suffering or distress associated with a particular condition or situation.
Example: "The affliction of a chronic illness can be overwhelming for many patients."
Alternatives: "suffering from a" or "burden of a".
Makes a great party game until you pen your biggest affliction of all... a realistic picture of all the guests attending who have gotten on your last nerve.
I mistakenly thought it was simply the affliction of an older generation.
"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.
Anyone familiar with earlier Candido works will recognize many of the afflictions of a young man, his wife and his passionately possessive mother in this play.
This preternaturally mature body of work (Ms. Frazier is just 31) connects bedrooms and streetscapes, the suffering of loved ones and the afflictions of a "distressed municipality" (the state's official term for Braddock and other ailing Rust Belt towns).
As rural Japan battles the twin afflictions of a population that is getting smaller almost as quickly as it's getting older, Kamiyama is one of a handful of towns bucking the trend.
When I visited Yasen, staff members told me stories of ambulances refusing to pick up an overdosing drug user and hospitals turning away people who come in with the afflictions of a violent life on the streets.
Given the prohibition on economic causality, how are we to account for the afflictions of a society in which the creation of wealth has been brought to such a high degree of perfection?
