Sentence examples for and afflicting from inspiring English sources

I can't help feeling, however, that I imposed the charges (I split the proceeds with local charities of my choice) in order to discourage advertisers – like any editor dedicated to "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" I regard advertising as something hugely untruthful that tends to get in the way.

"Speaking truth to power means comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable.

Satire, like folk music and freedom songs, works best when it is comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Otherwise, people might start to think Canadian pundits are also more concerned with branding exercises than with comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Intimidation, deception, subterfuge and basic spelling errors will not intimidate us nor will it chill a free press rooted in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Talk of "economic reform" was often "code for comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted", he said.

Media people are told that their duty is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Jack believed the true calling of a journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

He still quotes Finley Peter Dunne every now and then, reminding me what I'm supposed to do — "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".

We need more intelligent, hard-hitting media that "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".

I want to identify with and be identified by the holy calling "to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".