Sentence examples for rather dogged from inspiring English sources

Macmillan gets rather dogged with his metaphors.

We are, it seems, alone: our leaders and our military can't save us, and the movie turns into a rather dogged epic of attempted survival, with people wandering about haplessly, like the residents of Dresden after the firebombing.

This piece is a rather quiet but dogged example of artists' recent widespread concern with pollution.

But interviews with Taliban fighters taken prisoner, and with the commander of the Northern Alliance whose forces surrounded the compound, indicated a chaotic scramble rather than a dogged fight to the death.

"It wasn't a classic game by any stretch but the performance was dogged rather than sparking.

Rather, he pursued a dogged passion for the symbols of a Japanese nationhood that he believes has been castrated by the country's pacifist constitution and abiding war guilt.

From time to time, he would switch the wipers on and peer through the windscreen, but there was nothing much to see". Though this is dogged realism rather than crime fiction, Billy's downbeat persona would, in other circumstances, make for a perfectly believable gumshoe.

However, it is dogged loyalty rather than culinary taste that may explain White's preference for Oscar Mayer hot dogs.

Whether we like it or not, we need the media to expose the truth – after all, the Leveson inquiry's existence is largely down to the Guardian's dogged investigative journalism rather than any diligent police work.

It's not until the last third or so, when the plot spins out of control and begins to fall apart, that the reader -- as if waking from a pleasantly narcotized dream state -- finally notices that the characters lack the individuality and depth required to make fiction seem driven by psychological necessity rather than by the arbitrary, dogged application of the author's will.

More and more people were coming to believe that chance rather than providence guided human affairs, and that dogged certainty led to violence.