Sentence examples for by affliction from inspiring English sources

He comes across as reticent, by choice rather than by affliction.

The chorus is hunched, as by affliction, milling slowly with the aid of canes.

But it is only love born of hearts tested by affliction that is shown to endure — and to be worthy of celebration — in "As You Like It".

All these traditions are poured into a work that has been conceived as a true illuminated manuscript, a reworking of the Book of Job with Sheila Mechtilde Henriques, nee Chong, as the sufferer transfigured by affliction.

Nursed by affliction's cruel power.

Descriptive analysis of claims by affliction, bodily location, industry segment, occupation, employer and workplace was undertaken.

In many cases, rural schools are burdened by afflictions that also strain urban education systems: declining enrollment, teacher shortages, decaying buildings.

In the Morgan show a brief section is devoted to Dickens's fascination with mesmerism, and his pride in his abilities to hypnotize his wife and friends, along with others plagued by afflictions.

As President Bush inches closer to a decision about federal support for embryonic stem cell research, he is surrounded by reminders -- in Republican circles, in his White House and even in his family's past -- of the lives diminished by afflictions that the research might help fight.

The option of enlisting as an officer and joining the bulk of his generation in the graveyards of the Great War had been providentially removed by his affliction.

She then began a lament by Pietro Antonio Giramo in which the singer portrays a woman driven to irrational despair by the affliction of love.