One thing is certain: Blagojevich feels "hurt," he said, when, occasionally, he is persecuted by an unfeeling public.
"The Glass Menagerie" is a ghost play; everyone, including Tom Wingfield, the wandering narrator, is persecuted by memory.
She is persecuted by the other workers, who have "nothin' to hide and I got something to hide here called desire.
Its complex story, related at breakneck speed, tells of a civil servant in 14th-century China who is persecuted by a villainous general and compelled to kill himself.
"Harmony Lessons," a powerful film showing out of competition, observes the cruel pecking order and bullying at a school in rural Kazakhstan where a 13-year-old loner is persecuted by older classmates who operate an extortion racket.
José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastián film festival, wrote by e-mail, "It seems unbelievable that a director of a festival is persecuted by justice for showing a fictional film in his competition".
Elsewhere Vimes is persecuted by a green imp inside a "dis-organiser", a gift from his wife, and by a meticulous accountant called AE Pessimal, sent by the Patrician to order his papers.
Losing is prima facie evidence that the basic conservative claim is true: that the country is run by liberals; that the world is unfair; that the majority is persecuted by a sinister elite.
Bower is a man with so much support behind him that we don't need to get our handkerchiefs out: however much he is persecuted by the state and its bully boys, he is unlikely ever to end up reduced to street-sweeping like a Soviet-style Czech dissident.
"Giulia Lama was another early painter about whom there is no information apart from this one letter by the Abbé Conti, where he says: 'Her work is full of poetry … The poor woman is persecuted by other painters but her virtue triumphs over her enemies.
Many of those years are spent in prison: under the old regime, John is persecuted for abducting the daughter of one of the shah's generals; after the revolution, he is persecuted by religious fundamentalists for being English and for being married to a member of the former establishment.
