Sentence examples for shared affliction from inspiring English sources

Football swearing always seemed to speak to some fetid part of the game's dark heart, the sense of football as a kind of shared affliction, a place of cobwebs and cracks and burps and bile but this world has now been flushed out into the open.

The pop culture reference that most clearly strikes a chord with my colon is the musical story of our shared affliction, "IBS" by Cam'ron.

Last year, after the death of his friend and fellow addict Amy Winehouse, Brand paid tribute to her, saying they "shared an affliction, the disease of addiction".

The recollection is set into a broader portrait of addiction that includes an unsparing self-portrait: I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction.

"I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction," Brand writes.

(Almond surmises that Nadya Suleman — the so-called "Octomom" — may share this affliction).

So try to sympathize with her instead — because most of the civilized world seems to share her affliction.

That is because Pochers share an affliction with real Italian cars: the ambitions of those who make them often far exceed their manufacturing abilities.

Yet enough of us do suffer from anxiety that perhaps writing about my own ought not to be an occasion for shame but an opportunity to provide solace to some of the millions of others who share this affliction.

For another, Haddon hates to fly — an affliction shared by the protagonist of "A Spot of Bother".

There are only a few things I've looked forward to that for the most part haven't tried to kill me, hurt me, or become a huge disappointment: writing (sometimes), helping other people who share common afflictions (often), horses (mostly), dogs (usually), mountains (yes but they tried to kill me once), and going back to sleep.