Hemingway was a man who embraced every self-indulgence that can afflict a successful person.
In addition to such clearly offensive and unacceptable expressions as loony, maniac, nutter, psycho and schizo, terms to avoid – because they stereotype and stigmatise – include victim of, suffering from, and afflicted by; "a person with" is clear, accurate and preferable to "a person suffering from".
In addition to such clearly offensive and unacceptable expressions as loony, maniac, nutter, psycho and schizo, terms to avoid - because they stereotype and stigmatise - include victim of, suffering from, and afflicted by; "a person with" is clear, accurate and preferable to "a person suffering from".
But unlike other diseases that afflict a person or a group of people, this one is different.
Can I put you in touch?" If a journalist's mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, a good PR person makes the comfortable look slightly afflicted in order to give the journalist a better story.
It afflicts one person in four older than 75 and is the leading cause of legal blindness in Americans over 55.
The loss of such a person afflicts us both as citizens and as individuals: his death is a trauma both to the nation and to his family.
Cause Unknown Hives of one sort or another afflicts about one person in five at some time during their lives.
Children with autism, which afflicts about one person in 500, tend to engage in ritualistic behaviors like spinning, rocking or flapping their hands.
In the typical scenario, a person afflicted with a serious degenerative disease reaches a point where the immediate or prospective ordeal has become personally intolerable.
