Используйте «afflictive» в предложении

1. activity, and as such it can become afflictive in the long run

2. "By this afflictive dispensation of Divine Providence the Senate is deprived of a President rendered dear to each of its members by the dignity and impartiality with which he has so long presided over their deliberations; and the nation bereaved of one of the brightest luminaries of its glorious Revolution