Sentence examples for afflictions which from inspiring English sources
As well as Greece's afflictions, which may yet metastasise, many banks face harm from soured loans to Russia or to faltering oil firms.
The thing that strikes Knapp most about Roman popular wisdom is its deep passivity in the face of these afflictions, which feels so alien to moderns and especially to Americans.
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease are the perennial neuro-degenerative afflictions which remind an ageing population that the human brain is still the final frontier of modern medicine.
High ozone concentrations cause the above afflictions, which lead to increased hospital admissions and sometimes to death.
There are countless afflictions which can potentially harm the average person, many without a discernible source or cure.
But they also exist in a lot of other conditions / afflictions, which reaffirms what I said about it -- it's a bit controversial.
He's got this dental affliction which gives him a tusky, warthog grin.
But perhaps his finest hour was the 1997 drama Affliction, which he again wrote and directed.
That kind of affliction, which also ruined the career of Steve Blass and others, sounds like absolute torture.
Hazel is obsessed with an experimental, adult literary novel, "An Imperial Affliction," which was created by a David Foster Wallace-like genius.
Work was compulsion and punishment, an existential affliction which promised neither wellbeing nor even an assured sustenance.
