Affliction shows forth true character. (Spanish) The bitterest part of a person’s affliction is to remember that he was once happy. (Roman) We benefit by affliction....

Men, but more so women, have frequently viewed themselves as the victims of unsolicited and malevolent attention from the spirit world. Sometimes such affliction is thought to come out of the blue or to result from some quite trivial misdemeanor. More...

An affliction is something which causes someone physical, mental, or emotional suffering. Affliction is a title of several works of fiction:...

"Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward." Mr. Dooley Finley...

Produced by Paul Reisman; written and directed by Paul Schrader; based on the novel by Russell Banks; cinematography by Paul Sarossy; production design by Anne Pritchard; edited by Jay Rabinowitz; music by Michael Brook; starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Specek, James Coburn, Willem Defoe,...

Health authorities are working to contain a polio outbreak in Myanmar that has afflicted three toddlers, the latest case confirmed this week, the World Health Organization said Friday.All three cases _ affecting children between 15 and 23 months old _ were reported in the Maungdaw...

The cyclone that ravaged Bangladesh's coast has left the country reeling, but for many here already weary of hardship it just seemed like the latest in a series of plagues afflicting the nation.There's the grinding poverty that forces some 60 million people to live on...