Sentence examples for without afflicting the from inspiring English sources

May we blossom every fifty years without afflicting the people.

Britten does not shy from disturbing undertones that some see in the story, which were impossible to watch here without thinking about the current scandals afflicting the Roman Catholic Church.

They also address the core anxiety now afflicting the public.

High unemployment is also afflicting the euro zone, hurting consumers.

In his criticism, he claimed that: "Traditionally, satire has comforted the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable".

"Afflicting the comfortable, blog style".

The news cycle is designed to gravitate between afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.

The most common condition afflicting the inmates was insanity.

Ideally they would have the insight, compassion and sensitivity to perceive problems that afflict the common man without requiring a personal brush with tragedy to galvanize their legislative zeal.

He knows the rules so well that he can break them with aplomb -- and without the self-conscious posing that often afflicts the young.

What was hard to see, through the high-minded obituaries this week, was how sweet a friend he could be: without pretension or arrogance, a man of pure intellectual passion but without the pomposity or self-regard that afflicts the kind.