Sentences with phrase «like affliction»

It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form.

The importance to their continued sobriety of putting converts to work helping others with like affliction.

«Neuroscientists identify protein linked to Alzheimer's - like afflictions.»

Not exact matches

Atencio is the vice president and frontman for Seal Beach, California - based Affliction clothing, a 4 - year - old rock»n' roll - lifestyle apparel brand comparable to runaway successes like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch.

Like Sam Keen, Jürgen Moltmann seeks the liberation of humankind from its modern afflictions, and so gives a functional cast to his theology; he too offers a diagnosis of the world's misery, a vision of the world's possibilities, and a prescription for liberation, i.e., salvation.

As his patients suffer from bizarre afflictions like Tourette Syndrome, anosmia (loss of the sense of smell), and deficient proprioception (the ability to sense one's own body), there is an unmistakable «freak show» appeal to the book.

Usually it is all the afflictions and difficulties of the finite which like evil spirits separate the lovers, but love has heaven on its side, and therefore this holy alliance overcomes all enemies.

I would like to see people healed of their afflictions and rehabilitated if possible — but we don't have any options like that, do we?

According to Philo, the great crime of male same - sex behavior — pederasty, specifically — was that males would «suffer the affliction of being treated like a women» which Philo referred to as «the greatest of evils, unmanliness and effeminacy.»

Like millions of other people who have been delivered from every kind of sin and affliction, I too took Jesus Christ up on His offer, and He supernaturally changed me forever.

If we believe our affliction comes from God and is like Christ, who are we to mess with it?

I like to be ready for the big three baby afflictions: cold / flu, teething, and ear infections.

«The Oscar winner,» and father of a legendary left of liberal jolly, joshing, jostling, and jongleur is determined to be more dependable like a Gran Torino studded in diamonds and rubies to make ancient echolalia, long a political affliction, verifiable.

But working - class immigrant neighborhoods like these in Brooklyn suffer many afflictions: shabby buildings, drug dealing, too many young men with guns and too few with jobs.

But like so many others, his prescription became his affliction, resulting in a severe addiction and eventual overdoses.

But, not knowing seems to result in a little affliction I like to call the default postdoc.

Soon doctors were touting radium, like X-rays, as a cure for every affliction from warts to nosebleeds to infertility.

Early pioneers and trappers in North America encountered what looks like a similar affliction, sometimes referred to as rabbit starvation because rabbit meat is notoriously lean.

Imagine if genetic diseases could be removed from the very biological code of our species — a future in which the likes of hemophilia, cystic fibrosis or dozens of other afflictions are simply edited out of human embryos.

Pregnancy and hormonal shifts (like those caused by being on the Pill) can increase your chances of getting em, as can having family members with the same affliction (thanks, Mom!).

Treating many ailments and controlling the symptoms of minor afflictions like backaches, menstrual cramps, arthritis as also migraine headaches.

I don't like to wear Superga - type shoes with skirts either because I have the affliction «cankles.»

We don't want to say anything more — and frankly, the trailer makes it difficult to intuit much, save for some mysterious affliction that seems to render people immobile — but our film critic A.A. Dowd caught the film at Cannes this year and praised it, saying Lanthimos «brings a thunderous, quaking dread to every square inch» of his latest project, like a «twisted slow - burn Cape Fear.»

However, like its title protagonist, Hulk is a schizophrenic affair, not certain whether it is Affliction (the 1997 drama about parental abuse, which ironically earned Nolte an Oscar nomination as best actor) or King Kong...

Like Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, this show and its actors satirize, but also take very seriously, this particular bourgeois affliction as dramatic material.

In this tiny community, one's affliction is announced like a vocation: «Alan, stage three lymphoma.»

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

So does the pain of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) in «Affliction,» written and directed by Schrader, who says: «I get to feeling like a whipped dog some days.

Assuming the R - Design model doesn't ride like an oxcart (an affliction of its stablemates), it could be a very strong contender at its $ 35,000 starting point.

Like others, I want to make a point about «get - even-itis», an affliction many investors suffer from.

The issue of dog stomach bloating seems like a particularly egregious one and I hate to think about one of my family pets suffering from such an affliction.

Like the other factors, you should not exclude a clinic if they don't have this service but it is essential to be prepared and have a phone number always at hand in case of affliction.

There are simple remedies for such afflictions, like NHV Natural Pet Product's vet approved Kennel Cough Kit, but in general it would be best to avoid these conditions altogether.

And like other afflictions detrimental to our society as a whole (crack, heroin, How I Met -LSB-...]

The way certain elements are set up during battles makes it difficult to easily note things like enemy health bars and status afflictions for each individual fighter without losing a current note streak, as they're spread out quite a bit.

Had there been, say, attack and defense multipliers that could be applied, and other variables like maybe gravity sliders or changes to gameplay speed or random afflictions or whatever, this mode could have carried more of the burden for those seeking single - player content.

I learnt about plants I could eat to nullify afflictions monsters spat out at me, and I ironed out what felt like a million misgivings about one system or another.

Not everyone is going to climb a mountain to defeat their anxiety or depression, but at times, for many, that's exactly what it feels like to battle those afflictions.

To relieve heroes» stress and remove crippling afflictions, players need to use facilities like the Tavern and the Abbey located in the Hamlet.

«Horrific things that are done to women, like rape, as well as what we women do to ourselves, like plastic surgery, are powerful afflictions that the type of distortions made by the nylons can directly speak to.»

No mere lexical innovation, Clemens von Pirquet and Bela Schick's novel coinage explained disparate afflictions — hay fever, eczema, asthma — by common cause and pathology, in what now appears like an epidemiological prophecy.

Physical disabilities include full or partial paralysis caused by a brain or spinal cord injury, or lingering afflictions like chronic pain.

Because when you get right down to it, the same affliction really took out both Heller Ehrman and the likes of Lehman Brothers: the marketplace suddenly stopped believing in them.

It's the same affliction politicians on Parliament Hill come down with, resulting in things like the Firearms Registry and the Privacy Commissioner.