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.
Of all the people we met that afternoon, Ms. Pacuku stood out the most because she spoke so strongly about the style misconceptions that she felt had dogged her hometown.
The fugue, which represents scientific knowledge in Strauss's Nietzschean scheme, was on the sluggish side, while the following section, The Convalescent, felt a bit dogged.
Most of humankind's great achievements--the sorts of things that make us say, "Oh, wow!" -- were accomplished by people who were muttering or shouting, "Oh, shit!" Heroes don't feel special, just dogged.
It feels as if dogged adherence to the plot points of the original boxed Phillips into a corner.
But Murray, despite making good friends who were of enormous help thereafter, still didn't feel settled, and was dogged by depression.
Meanwhile, the accuracy complaints that once dogged "Argo" feel like old news at this point, whereas Spielberg and Kushner are getting whacked in the face with rhetorical two-by-fours in, of all places, Maureen Dowd's recent New York Times op-ed.
I had a busy, high-profile career, and the grief that dogged me often felt like something to hide or be ashamed of.
It brought home the diversity of rural towns and the relentless search for their own secret ingredient that will bring people to visit or live and turn around the (commonly felt) economic malaise that has dogged them.
"I feel bad that it has unfairly dogged him all these years," he wrote in an e-mail.
