Sentence examples for affliction the from inspiring English sources

"An E-Mail Affliction: The Long Goodbye" (May 9) was fascinating because of what it revealed about social impulses.

In the book, Djokovic calls his affliction the Curse, suggesting an unpredictable scourge, but it struck most often when his game was failing.

One more factor worked to keep me where I was, exiled in my own apartment, a prisoner of my affliction: the specter of ECT (electro-convulsive therapy).

The very disparity of its contents speaks to the random nature of affliction, the indiscriminate and casual route that illness, small and large, takes in coming to us.

The hunger was thus an affliction, the result of age-old poverty and of a drought that was the product of nature, not human beings.

Last year, after the death of his friend and fellow addict Amy Winehouse, Brand paid tribute to her, saying they "shared an affliction, the disease of addiction".

As he works at the Whittlesea madhouse, he decides that forgetting is the affliction of the mad.

"Man's nature cannot carry / The affliction nor the fear," he says.

But they are also bringing back the afflictions of the village: the dearth of privacy, intolerance, rumor-mongering.

Gather all the afflictions in the world, says the Midrash, and poverty would outweigh them all.

Her afflictions — the heart issues and worsening arthritis — had slowed her.