On the BIS, higher scores also indicated a greater affliction (i.e., more impulsive self-reports).
The soldiers followed after, in full armour themselves, and with their horses decorated; they were neither dejected in view of their great affliction nor exultant over their victory.
Webster's II Dictionary defines "adversity" as follows: "great affliction or hardship," or "a misfortune". To the best of my knowledge, two crybaby multi-millionaires with egos the size of their paychecks learning how to share a ball does not fit either of the definitions above.
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.
"I am a professor of great affliction--a Scotch-Irish conscience, which will not permit me to follow after a great multitude to do what I conceive to be evil," Ervin said.
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.
