Sentence examples similar to was afflicted when from inspiring English sources

In Far from Heaven (2002), Haynes re-created the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama to tell the tale of a seemingly perfect married couple in 1950s suburbia whose relationship is afflicted when the husband (Dennis Quaid) reveals to his wife (Moore) that he has been struggling with homosexuality.

Pisacane was 14 when he was afflicted by it, losing all movement in his limbs before his breathing deteriorated to the point where he had to be intubated.

In "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer," the poet and essayist Christian Wiman writes about his religious faith, which intensified after he met his future wife and then intensified again when he was afflicted with a rare type of cancer at the age of 39.

The pain attacks usually occurred at the time the patient felt fatigued or when he was afflicted by a cold with or without fever.

Miller was given the responsibility of batting in the number three position when Hassett was afflicted by tonsillitis.

Recalling the texture and warp of the looking‑glass world, I feel like the man whose migraines are long cured but who seeks to recall and record the visions he saw when he was afflicted.

Mrs. Murphy-Lesko worked after school to help support her family when her father was afflicted with a brain abscess.

Off Granby Street, in Toxteth, Liverpool, are rows of small houses which the local authority has wanted to demolish at least since the 1980s, when the area was afflicted by its famous riots.

When he was young, he was afflicted by a speech impediment.

I'm too sad to be eloquent!" James Dwyer: "When I was a teenager, I was afflicted by terrible nightmares.

When he returned, his piano playing was afflicted intermittently by trembling of his hands.