Totems of death have dogged other characters for years, the references to the falling man have also been thick on the ground.
Walter Hill, whose 1978 thriller "The Driver" is included in the Film Forum program, agrees that there is a timeless attraction to characters dogged by cruel circumstance and fate.
The film must have been a trial of endurance but she brings an impressively dogged and philosophical quality to her character – someone who knows that with each step she takes along the trail, she is coming closer to mending her messed-up life.
Since campaigning began in earnest, Mr. Ma has been dogged by issues of character, with Mr. Hsieh relentlessly questioning him on having received United States permanent residency.
After: The character of Bilko dogged Silvers until he died in 1985.
Hence the book's title: "It's our turn to eat".Mr Githongo, who reported for The Economist (among other journals) in the 1990s, is portrayed by the author, an outstanding former Financial Times journalist, to whose house in London he fled, as a complex character: jovial, moody, dogged, ingenious and understandably obsessive.
Perhaps he knows that his fate will be decided – one way or the other – within the next month and is encouraged by the prospect of resolution, like a medieval knight facing single combat to resolve issues of courage and character which have dogged his life.
In her bold debut collection, "The Bostons," Carolyn Cooke seems to take inspiration from such tale-tellers: these are stories that often begin bewilderingly and end suddenly, each one a darting excursion into the troubled but dogged lives of her New England characters.
His dogged pursuit was not out of character.
There are weak points in this – his sudden falling in love is unconvincing – but Duncan is a profoundly satisfying character in his awkward, dogged goodness.
