Financial worries dogged her life, and she was forced to work until her death in 1965.
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.
It's a career he's taken up again as a way of coming to terms with the tragedies that have dogged his life.
It's a career he's taken up again today as a way of coming to terms with the tragedies that have dogged his life.
Comparisons are the curse of parenthood for sure, yet Lucy undoubtedly struggled through the early winter months of her life, dogged by a wheezy chest and ailments which always hit her harder than most.
Early afflicted by the ill health that dogged him throughout life, Malinowski in his teens traveled extensively in the Mediterranean region with his mother, who was by then widowed.
There he resented the widespread disdain (particularly rampant among the followers of Vaughan Williams) to the concept of the composer as thinker, an attitude that he felt dogged his whole life.
The frustration of injury, the humdrum of training and the difficulties of family life dogged them both throughout.Between them they won six Olympic medals, broke 17 middle-distance records and inspired a generation of British runners to international success, dragging 13 under the magical four-minute mile in 1979.
It is a huge book with biographical underpinnings lustily embellished upon in the service of a roiling narrative of a life dogged by sexual and emotional abuse, addiction, mental instability and a crushing celebrity that dashed any hope of normalcy that Norma Jean (spelled Jeane in the novel and the film credits) and Monroe held out for themselves.
Butler was dogged all through life by the sense of having been bamboozled by those who should have been his betters; he had been taken in by his parents and their religion; he was taken in again by friends, who returned neither the money nor the friendship they accepted from Butler for years; life itself, and the world, sometimes seemed to him a hollow sham.
