The phrase "afflicts so much" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a significant impact or suffering caused by something, often in a negative context.
Example: "The disease afflicts so much pain on the community that immediate action is required."
Alternatives: "causes so much suffering" or "inflicts so much distress".
It is hard, for example, to work small and indulge in the mind-boggling degree of spectacle that afflicts so much art today.
The show's tone is a curious mix of deeply serious – they don't shy away from the corruption which afflicts so much of Italian life – and occasionally funny.
To San Franciscans their city is a magical place, almost an island, saved by its location and history from the sprawl and monotony that afflicts so much of urban California.
It makes all four generations of the family appear strangely bereft, not so much upwardly mobile immigrants making it into the promised land as much as characters flailing at the boundaries of life, wanting to be let across the borders into the mysterious disquiet that afflicts so much of the rest of humanity.
Both Jemmett and Donnellan are from the UK but, like Ostermeier, they work mostly in Europe, where directors such as Ivo van Hove are reinventing these old familiar plays with real vigour and insight, unfettered by several hundred years of performance history and the reverence that afflicts so much Shakespeare produced in England.
Similarly, Shavit resists the binary simplicities that afflict so much discussion of Israel-Palestine.
You are right if you think that men afflicted so much pain and suffering on you, but you are also wrong if you cling to that pain and make your identity out of it.
The rankings exacerbate the status anxiety that afflicts so many high school students.
As a result, she has perhaps avoided the overexposure which afflicts so many leading ladies.
We all know the addiction that afflicts so many of us, whether we admit or not.
The expert, Martin Kramer, who teaches both in the United States and in Israel and is editor of Middle East Quarterly, writes in a new book, "Ivory Towers on Sand," that the study of the Middle East and of Islam has been afflicted with so much political bias and wishful thinking that most scholars have missed "the major evolutions of Middle Eastern politics and society over the past two decades".
