Sentence examples for poor afflicted from inspiring English sources
SOCIETIES have often distinguished between the deserving poor (afflicted by sickness or disability) and the undeserving sort (the feckless and workshy).
The Wolfman (2010) Benicio Del Toro ORIGIN STORY How proud is Universal Pictures of its remake of the 1941 great-granddaddy of lycanthropy films, starring Benicio Del Toro in the role of poor afflicted Larry Talbot?
Paul Chaplin, another writer with the series, said of the actor's acromegaly: "That fact opens up a large irresolvable issue concerning the movie industry's use of this poor afflicted fellow; he was paid, after all, and movie work is nice work.
Never support "curing autism," "fixing" people, children "taken away" by autism, or the poor poor families "afflicted" with an autistic child.
The 18th century would have approved of entrusting the disappearance from sight of the poor, the afflicted, the workless, the seeker of asylum and the criminal, to new superintendents of the poor, including A4E, Capita and Serco.
Father Mychal was well known to the poor and afflicted of New York City and New Jersey.
The second presumes that the poor are afflicted by cultural or psychological dysfunctions that sometimes lead them to behave in shortsighted ways.
In cases where older people are poor, the afflicted often have been very old women, who have long outlived their spouses and any nest egg.
I feel terribly for those poor people afflicted with the condition that makes this fabulous herb taste like soap on their tongues.
Nunnery Wood High School, Worcester: a low-cost disaster shelter, built by the students, that could be a prototype for shelters in poor or afflicted countries.
