Sentences with phrase «mysterious affliction»

A victim of a mysterious affliction that makes her blood a virulent poison and her touch instantly lethal, Cardia is shunned as a monster.Through a number of events both grand and seemingly insignificant, Cardia is pursued by the Royal Guard, kidnapped by the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, and joined by a myriad of other handsome figures out of the best of western literature.

Genuinely original and semi-unclassifiable, Spring is set in a village on the Italian coast where a young American drifter (Lou Taylor Pucci) and a charming but strangely elusive woman fall in love — despite the fact that she suffers from a mysterious affliction that causes her body to mutate and drives her to feed off whoever's unlucky enough to come her way.

Altered States of Plaine (Unrated) Sci - fi thriller revolving around a young fugitive (George Gallagher) on the run from the government who is desperate for a cure from a mysterious affliction that has him waking up in a different place whenever he falls asleep.

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.»

By the end of the year 121 people are known to have died from the mysterious affliction

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John Paul opens Salvifici Doloris with St. Paul's mysterious statement to the Colossians: «In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.»

It is for our good and can only come through kind affliction that is meant to chip away at the lump of coal to reveal the diamond... and unfortunately it does hurt, but God is indeed righteous yet his ways are mysterious.

Now in the same devastatingly beautiful language that has won her critical and popular acclaim, Melinda Haynes returns to the country she knows so well — the backwoods South of the 1960s — to tell the story of a mysterious town and its inhabitants, each with their own afflictions and joys, each with their own secrets.