Sentence examples for mental affliction from inspiring English sources

He founded the National Review in 1955 – when conservatism was viewed in polite society as a mental affliction – and he has always been sceptical of appeals to "the people," preferring the eternal top-down certainties of Catholicism.

If one person becomes a bit saner, another will become that bit madder; if one group starts to act normally, another will start freaking out.Mr Self's theory can be applied to all sorts of mental affliction.

October 17, 1818 Richmond, Virginia September 25, 1900 Richmond, Virginia Elizabeth L. Van Lew, (born Oct. 17, 1818, Richmond, Va., U.S. died Sept. 25, 1900, Richmond), American Civil War agent who, through clever planning and by feigning mental affliction, managed to gather important intelligence for the Union.

He was curious, and of course bewildered, because she'd left out so much — the women being there at the hockey matches and then appearing on the way through the woods, and how she'd thought they might suffer from a mental affliction.

Today, this mental affliction has been renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

Many perpetrators are in the middle, gray zone where psychiatrists will disagree about the relative contributions of moral failure versus mental affliction.

Even upon identification, the mental afflictions of the wealthy are exceptionally difficult to treat.

It is unfair to connect violence with schizophrenia and other mental afflictions.

Channel 4, particularly, has a strong track record of curing mental afflictions simply via the gift of "filming the poor broken sods".

A new class of app has emerged on iPhone screens, promising to relieve the mental afflictions — stress, distraction — that have been exacerbated by its neighbors.

The lesson is clear: only someone plagued by mental afflictions would take such extreme steps to subvert the power of the US government.