Words similar to affliction

Example sentences for: affliction

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Golfer Bert Yancey was the only well-known athlete to publicly acknowledge this affliction.
Movies like 8MM make me appreciate what Paul Schrader tried to do when he chose to bring Russell Banks' novel Affliction to the screen.
He is a very good writer, too, though I sometimes find his arch approach unnecessary and a bit annoying: he seems in a perpetual pursuit of the pun, an affliction not entirely unknown in these hallowed halls.
Perhaps I'd have responded more fully to Affliction if it had been in Swedish.
Movie-- Affliction ;