But he would not retreat from attacking what he came to believe were the three great afflictions of mankind: racism, war and poverty.
Awed reports of what he went through, on the set of "The Revenant," cannot disguise the fact that his character is a moral monotone, who suffers great afflictions but no change.
Reflecting on St John's death, Newman stated: "This is the greatest affliction I have had in my life … he was my earthly light".
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales The Symphonie Fantastique was reputedly written in a haze of opium addiction, but in truth Berlioz's greatest affliction at the time of writing was his hopeless love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
On the BIS, higher scores also indicated a greater affliction (i.e., more impulsive self-reports).
Now we learn that it is just as great an affliction of older people.
Making up stories, pandering to the public wild-boy image, was as good a way as any of keeping the imagined enemy at bay, but all the time, as with his great role Affliction, the real enemy was in his head.
The Reverend Thomas Weld wrote, "The Lord heard our groans to heaven, and freed us from our great and sore affliction.
Heng: You should use great wisdom to destroy affliction, defilement, and the five skandhic heaps.
FDR's misdiagnosis--if such it was--may have changed the course of history, because his affliction gave great momentum to efforts to develop a polio vaccine.
Politics, while hardly ignored (in works by Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Harrell Fletcher, among others), exchange claims of affliction for a greater emphasis on formal allure.
