Sentence examples for seemed afflicted from inspiring English sources

The Superjet seemed afflicted with troubles from early on.

Yet many of us who watched "Shards" found that its fragmentation seemed to go deeper than social conditions; nature itself seemed afflicted by a nervous breakdown.

In recent years the violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman has often seemed afflicted with what could be called celebrity coasting syndrome.

And while other riders were suffering from bruises and bumps, Greipel seemed afflicted only by a severe case of the grumps.

Yet it was to the immense credit of the home side that, even in those long queasy spells when their opponents clearly belonged to a different tier, they seldom seemed afflicted by any kind of inferiority complex.

And so Serginho wasn't quite himself at times; he seemed diffident – not in keeping with a man who has quite the rap sheet for bursts of aggression – and his finishing, so trusty at club level, seemed afflicted by a psychosomatic frailty.

Even to the casual observer, Ackroyd seems afflicted by melancholy.

None of our European partners, with their own proud national traditions, seem afflicted by this self-doubt and insecurity.

As for statesmanship, he has been an MP for longer than his brother or Mr Balls and held higher office than his rivals, performing creditably as foreign secretary for three years.Ed Miliband, meanwhile, seems afflicted by twin delusions.

There's something about macro that seems to invite this sort of thing: more even than the rest of economics, macro seems afflicted with people who mistake confusion for insight, who think their own failure to understand basic ideas reflects a failure of those ideas rather than their own limitations.

It's not making fun of everything, or it's not only that – rather, a tendency to be pre-emptively embarrassed, followed by anger at whoever is around who doesn't seem afflicted by this hypothetical shame, which comes out in sarcasm.