Sentence examples for source of affliction from inspiring English sources

The medium will prescribe ritual actions designed to transform the spirit from a source of affliction to a benevolent or neutral power or to send the spirit away.

Practical Hinduism is both a quest to achieve well-being and a set of strategies for locating sources of affliction and removing or appeasing them.

As if in a counterblast to the homely optimism of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Letts suggests that the state's wide open plains are a "flat, hot nothing" and a source of spiritual affliction.

Is there any possibility that people will look at our cap-and-trade policy as it applies to mercury emissions as a source of Doc Ock's affliction?

He took his sexual orientation as an affliction, a source of pain and embarrassment.

The second source is a group of late New Kingdom inscriptions recounting episodes of affliction that led to people's perceiving that they had wronged a god.

This is an entirely unprecedented category of affliction for me.

But it also suffers its own brand of affliction.

Of the days of affliction, there shall be no end.

She pointed to her best exhibit of affliction.

Krohn herself sometimes sees self-awareness as a kind of affliction.