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Example sentences for: affliction

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Perhaps I'd have responded more fully to Affliction if it had been in Swedish.
Movies like 8MM make me appreciate what Paul Schrader tried to do when he chose to bring Russell Banks' novel Affliction to the screen.
Years ago, when he was still a film critic, Paul Schrader wrote an evocative study of the directors Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer that he called Transcendental Style in Cinema . How odd that the style of Schrader's new movie, Affliction , is as torturously untranscendent as a work of cinema can get.
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But it can also be seen, hauntingly, in the almost sacral reception given to Ronald Reagan's handwritten letter revealing his affliction with Alzheimer's disease.