Sentences with phrase «personal affliction»

This entails facing up to a personal affliction that neatly — a touch too neatly, I found — gathers and contextualises his character flaws in a final - page twist that could be difficult to transfer to film, dependent as it is on the selective self - descriptions of an unreliable narrator.

Is this a personal affliction?

Maybe it's my own personal affliction, but I often find many parallels between what we directly observe and experience in nature and the financial markets.

People will forgive your academic mishaps, but negative behaviors are often viewed as personal afflictions and intentional.

Not exact matches

For many, the evil occurs in an affliction of the personal or family body.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Indeed, critics complain that the mayor's personal fortune is bank - rolling his re-election and silencing democracy, but it is that wealth that frees Bloomberg from the affliction of so many other popularity - craving, poll - watching politicians.

From writer - director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

A personal insight into most of Paul Schrader's directorial output from Blue Collar (1978) to Affliction (1997).

Along the way, we are treated to Isabel's philosophical musings on many diverse subjects: being polite, or saying what you really feel; landscape painters taking artistic licence; the purpose of art; adoption; head lice; which bodily afflictions are too personal to talk about; sarcasm; swearing; wind turbines; jumping to conclusions; religion; children's literature; dogs dreaming; metaphors; how to end arguments and knowing who you are.

An accident and personal injury lawyer will seek maximum compensation for any physical and emotional afflictions sustained during the crash.

Morofsky made conscious breathing the centerpiece of Wellativity, which is what he calls his personal method for helping people overcome afflictions such as obesity, smoking, lethargy, eating disorders and any other behavior that inhibits wellness.

I'm curious about the «mashed potato overload»... does this affliction require medical treatment or just 6 weeks of intensive personal training?