Historian Robert Conquest, of the Hoover Institution, has referred to such "empathy" and adulation among the young, as the "unfortunate affliction" of "adolescent revolutionary romanticism."

It can be seen that his unfortunate affliction of the eye has now returned.

It's a truly unfortunate affliction.

There is occasional gossip; but it is accepted as an unfortunate affliction, and not a matter to be advertised to the outside world.

You may tell our resplendent cardinal, who suffers from the unfortunate affliction of a high-decibeled wheeze that we truly hope our decision is not an affront to him.

Therein lies the problem: being a cat-lover is a stupid and unfortunate affliction, since they rarely return your affection.

There is Bernard the pisciniste, who arrives to fight the algae in the swimming pool in gray flannels and designer sunglasses, and who would have come sooner but for his unfortunate affliction: "He bites dentists."

He is, I'm told, a genius, but with some sort of unfortunate affliction.

Perhaps the only unhappy owner of the Rectory was the Reverend Banks who had an extremely unfortunate affliction of the nose which no doctor could alleviate.

Two causes of this unfortunate affliction, it seems, are a serious deficiency of protein in the diet and an excessive intake of vitamin A (carotene).