Sentence examples for and affliction from inspiring English sources

The history of loss and affliction he had transmuted into fiction had become autobiography.

There's a darkness to his sound that suggests that joy and affliction are not unrelated.

Banks, the author of "Cloudsplitter," "The Sweet Hereafter," and "Affliction," jumped in.

And even as she sang about heartbreak and affliction, she conveyed joy in a Portuguese heritage that stays distinctive.

Russell Banks, whose novels-turned-movies include "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Affliction," also tried his hand at a script for Mr. Coppola seven or eight years ago.

Among her other novels are The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May 19899), Darcy's Utopia (1990), Growing Rich (1992), and Affliction (1993; U.S. title, Trouble).

Abstinence, fasting "and afflictions and corporal chastisements" were their daily practice.

Stem cells, he said, "offer great promise for addressing incurable diseases and afflictions.

Difficulties and afflictions, the book shows, frequently foster creativity and resilience.

Add to this a weekly ration of gruesome deaths and afflictions, and you have a guaranteed hit.

Do the smugglers and suspected terrorists, the maladies and afflictions that run through this novel give it a somber gravity?