Sentence examples for like affliction from inspiring English sources

Like Hot Topic, Buckle has Goth-inspired merchandise, including brands like Affliction, which embellishes clothes with skulls and crosses.

But as a parent, I guided my children with a lighter hand, if only to appease my wife, who tends to exclaim "Too intense!" whenever I rent us a video like "Affliction" for a romantic Saturday night.

Dismissed as a blond beefcake after his success in Rich Man Poor Man, Nolte took about five minutes to prove everybody wrong, and if he works too much today, then it doesn't feel like too high a price to pay for the occasional movie like Affliction or Jefferson In Paris.

Perhaps the key lies in a quotation Mr. Wilson found from the abolitionist John Woolman: "We are the subject of like afflictions and infirmities of body, the like disorders and frailties of mind, the like temptation, the same death, and the same judgment".

The first half of "Tarnation" is almost unwatchably sad, as Jonathan and Renee keep step in their Job-like afflictions (Renee sought a new life in Chicago but was raped by a stranger in front of Jonathan, who was then placed in foster care and maltreated), and the tales of splintered hope, with "Wichita Lineman" playing over them, may drive some viewers to tears.

But A(H1N1), in addition to sounding like an affliction peculiar to R2D2, does not exactly trip lightly off the tongue.

Edwards has never heard fans chanting for his firing, as Fassel has, but he sometimes describes the call to coaching as something that sounds like an affliction.

This struck me as a strange and original approach, and I replied with a laugh that poetry was more like an affliction than a career.

Now, with Facebook's share price down 16 percent since the initial offering on May 17, and the lawsuits starting to fly, a seat on the board might feel like an affliction.

In novels like "Continental Drift," "Affliction," "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Rule of the Bone," Mr. Banks has specialized in characters who live on the margins — the poor, runaways, illegal immigrants — and so, curious about the people who lived under the causeway, he drove over for a closer look.

For those who were there in 1994, during the genocide, memory can feel like an affliction, and the greater imperative has often been to learn how to forget enough for long enough to live in the present for the rest of the year.