Sentence examples for universal affliction from inspiring English sources

Unpaid credit-card debt was a universal affliction amongst the women.

The characters suffer from "a universal affliction", that is the desire to be writers.

Poor lighting seems to be an almost universal affliction of the so-so kitchen.

Dermatophytic infections, often referred to as ringworm and tinea are known to cause universal affliction of humans and their domestic animals.

Its insights carry the timelessness of all great literature: in 423 pithy aphorisms it lays bare the universal afflictions of suffering, envy, fear, greed and despair, and illumines the psychological frailties behind them.

The jitters appear to be a universal consumer affliction, said Jeff Schuster, executive director of global forecasting at J. D. Power & Associates.

The bulk of the abuse and neglect cases come about because of universal human afflictions: alcoholism and drug abuse, domestic anger and strife, mental illness.

The principle of action, that ESW induces self-regenerating processes within the healthy tissue surrounding the focus of affliction, appears to be universal.

In his private afflictions, Melville had found universal metaphors.

Hearing loss among orchestra players is universal: the normal state of affairs rather than any abnormal affliction.

AFFLICTION Schizophrenia.