He added, "When you're claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress because you got no response to a letter to a private individual who is like a prime minister, that is going off the deep end".
This "observable bodily harm" standard generally means that if you sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress, your recovery is taxed.
Or, he said, you can turn the infliction into a pathway to the heart, and in prayer, use the energy of the wound to pray, not in self-righteousness, but with heartfelt urgency, "Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner".
In the tale of the schoolmaster, who is "one-quarter Jewish, as they used to say", he sifted memories of the silence and "normality" of his own village, mindful of the "great time lag between the infliction of injustice and when it finally overwhelms you".
Say you settle a suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress against your neighbor for $100,000, and your lawyer keeps $40,000.
This includes inflicting "severe mental pain or suffering," "the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering" or "the threat of imminent death".
We notice how plentiful were the occasions for inflicting social pain, and how interested the powerful were in this infliction.
Actually, you don't have the right to do that — that would be false imprisonment and the infliction of grievous bodily harm.
Ann, mother, needless guilt infliction, $50,000.
It is a synecdoche for the infliction of pain.
