And thanks to gravity, the generously endowed — whether naturally or surgically — tend to be more afflicted.
But as the vignettes roll on one after the other, Africa, in Mr. Kapuscinski's version of it, becomes ever more afflicted, more of a disaster.
The trouble with this idea is that local residents have already had their fill of the pollution and extra traffic caused by the port complex and they will lobby hard to stop their evenings and weekends being still more afflicted.
Just as he did with Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, Payne gets Dern to rein in the familiar tropes, working with the echoes of previous roles to create a character more afflicted by melancholia than madness.
Escobar's death ended the second season of "Narcos," but the show has continued; the third season followed the Cali cartel, and the fourth has moved to Mexico, which is now even more afflicted by drug violence than Colombia is.
In Whisper, for example, the community heavily moderates posts and points some more afflicted users to its related non-profit arm, YourVoice, which reaches out to those who may be on the edge of suicide, for instance.
As expected from the modeling work (see Figure 4 and Table 2), Panel A highlights that the size of age declines measured by effect size index dp decreases as performance of older adults increases, as the test becomes easier and data are more afflicted by ceiling effects.
