The phrase "suffering victim" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to someone who is enduring physical or mental pain, injury, or hardship as the result of a traumatic event or act. For example: "The suffering victim of the car accident was taken to the hospital for medical treatment."
The French often view her more as a cautionary tale of a privately suffering victim of royal-family indifference.
First, the condemnation of accidents is associated with increased perceptions of a suffering victim, and also with increased trait empathy.
"You conjure up this picture of a frail woman back at home, a silent suffering victim," Field continues.
In other words, we expect that the more one empathizes with the suffering victim, the more one is likely to condemn the perpetrator's action, but only for actions that result in harm.
The 20/20 piece ended up hitting the highlights of the Metabolife controversy, including founder Ellis' arrest record, the fierce debate in the medical community and the requisite suffering victim (who's suing, of course).
The two men became protagonists in torrent of commentary in which some painted Gates as a long suffering victim of social injustice, a sort of black everyman standard bearer for all people of color, and Crowley as the unjustly maligned police officer, a champion for the forces of law and order.
To pick just one immigrant difficulty: many Latinas are burdened by "marianismo" -- the flip side of machismo and a cultural expectation that women be docile, suffering victims.
Toibin can't acknowledge that James may have been "the kindest of friends," because it interferes with his larger vision of James the cold fish, the artistic vampire living off the lifeblood of his innocent and truly suffering victims.
Heartfelt statements from suffering victims have become a courtroom norm.
Many patients with disabilities find their doctors insensitive or patronizing, seeing them as poor, suffering victims in need of pity[ 8].
We find that when there are more suffering victims, people think they will feel more compassion.
