Why separate external and internal afflictions, instead of simply organizing one comprehensive text in the top-down, outward-inward fashion?
Traditionally, we have regarded obesity as an affliction of middle life, with the extremes of life relatively spared.
The sufferings of others the poet thus narrated with the same intensity as he lamented the afflictions of his heart.
The cause of our affliction is the church of clerks which the archbishop intends.
They felt particular shame when their affliction prevented them from farming, making them feel parasites dependent on the community.
This is an affliction with many, but by no means all, thick academic paperbacks.
In this instance the affliction is far from clear.
To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction.
