Sentence examples for some affliction from inspiring English sources

Hudgins's method is straightforward: in chapters that read like free-standing essays, he confesses his love for a certain vein of inappropriate humor, furnishes several examples and ruminates on their therapeutic value in helping him to overcome some affliction (emotional, social, filial).

In a letter to Mersenne, Descartes asks why "what makes one man want to dance may make another want to cry": it may be, he suggests, that the second man has "never heard a galliard without some affliction befalling him", so that he cries "because it evokes ideas in [his] memory" (18 March 1630, in Descartes 1991, p. 20; see Sutton 1998, pp. 74 81).

They all grow up with some affliction as a result of their stay in Hill House, whether it's Shirley's compulsive righteousness, Steve's avoidance tactics, Luke's drug dependency, Theo's literal and figurative fear of intimacy, and Nell's depression.

Some afflictions that may affect the uterus include infections; benign and malignant tumours; malformations, such as a double uterus; and prolapse, in which part of the uterus becomes displaced and protrudes from the vaginal opening.

The genes for some afflictions may actually have been preserved through Darwinian selection.

While some afflictions are more recent phenomena than others, how we cope with this suffering, and how we go about reducing the pain we inflict on ourselves and others, are dilemmas as old as humankind itself.

I got the sense that there was some brutality there, some sexual affliction that she had endured with the fathomless patience of her generation.

Iowa, as it happens, is famous for its work ethic, in a country whose attachment to work is so intense it is considered by some an affliction.

I went abroad recently and, weirdly, all the foreign people weren't walking around like they had some horrible affliction.

At times, it seems the only way to get a memoir published as a Kindle Single is to have some awful affliction.

I know that as parents, we are victims of some strange affliction which causes our children to always seem to have been the very age they are now.