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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.
Golfer Bert Yancey was the only well-known athlete to publicly acknowledge this affliction.
There are occasional hidden entries, as the list of diseases—among them the dread mohogus —under the entry for Fowlenzia . (In the VERBATIM family, some suffer from Fowler's pip , an affliction affecting language fanatics who base a slavish purism on a literal interpretation of Modern English Usage .)
Affliction
The first time I saw Affliction , it struck me as both arid and pretentious; the second, arriving with no narrative expectations, I found myself more tolerant of the pacing and more drawn in by the performances.