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Du Bois in 1903, describing, in The Souls of Black Folk , a "double consciousness" that afflicted, yet graced, the coloreds of his day.
The more Clinton is afflicted, the more the press comforts him by afflicting Starr.
The leaden account Walsh has produced more than a decade later reflects in microcosm most of the foibles that afflicted his investigation.
It's likely, from past revelations, that Mike Tyson may be similarly afflicted.
He cannot forget anything, and if he needs to put something out of mind, he has to take a mental walk down his mental road and dig a mental hole in which to bury it; he is also afflicted (if "afflicted" is the word) with synesthesia, as well as with an uncertain grasp of self.