Trott pushes herself so hard that she is infamous for vomiting after races – although that affliction has recently been controlled by medication.
Abraham was tested by God when he was commanded to kill his son Isaac, and Job, after a period of affliction and loss, was restored to health and prosperity as a reward for his righteousness.
So after passing on my affliction to my seven-year-old son, I decided to sit him down and show him every goal Brazil scored at the 1982 World Cup.
This alliterative affliction is named after the wizarding school in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and is suffered by children embarking on marathon reading sessions of the 870-page "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
The second half of the concert, titled "The Spiritual Beethoven," will be devoted to his Mass in C. Both pieces were written not long after the onset of the affliction that cost Beethoven his hearing and during the time he wrote his fifth and sixth symphonies.
People often come up to me after lectures to whisper about their affliction, as though everyone else in the room weren't grappling with precisely the same thing.
He's fiercely protective of his little sister, Ana, who is "beset by a series of gothic afflictions" after having been born prematurely, but is spunky and bawdy and a glorious creation.
Sometimes known as second (or, indeed, third) album syndrome, this affliction can strike any time after a successful release.
Not long ago, paparazzi snaps of the actress Jennifer Garner, wife of Ben Affleck, sparked similar podiatric fascination after it emerged that has the same affliction.
Constant, exhausting, no-time-to-meet-your-friends Charlie Ravioli-style busyness arrived as an affliction in modern life long after the other parts of bourgeois city manners did.
