Sentence examples for crippling affliction from inspiring English sources
This excludes the psychologically and emotionally damaged – the tens of thousands who returned with the crippling affliction, unacknowledged for another 60 years, of post traumatic stress disorder.
When he awoke the next morning, he could hardly move, it was as though he had been "turned to stone" overnight in the position in which he had slept, and at Post-Graduate Hospital he was found to have pneumonia, along with a sudden crippling affliction of the bones and joints.
However, the bends, which Chowdhury himself has survived, may be the most terrifying of all, an excruciating and often crippling affliction that occurs when nitrogen absorbed into the blood under high pressure is forced into body tissues when that pressure is too quickly reduced.
Mental illness is one of the most crippling human afflictions, affecting one in five people in the U.S. and accounting for $193 billion in annual costs.
It's like some crippling 19th-century affliction – rickets perhaps, or scarlatina – that should have been cleared up by modern medicine years ago, but keeps on dragging us down.
The economy of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is no bigger than it was a quarter of a century ago.Many of Brazil's national afflictions, such as crippling taxes and a jungle of red tape, are at their most acute in Rio.
What never occurs to Genna or to any of the book's other well-meaning liberals is that Minette's demons - the weight gain, the social awkwardness, the tooth grinding and, most of all, the crippling self-pity - might not be the residue of race-hate, but rather symptoms of another affliction.
AFFLICTION Schizophrenia.
