The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard joined in with a piece that also dutifully repeated Gilbert's persecution narrative.
Mao's brief romance of the nation's top minds while the Communist Party consolidated power gave way to repeated purges and persecutions that continued through his death in 1976.
She had read the expected symptoms of persecution, and repeated them upon command.
The symptoms included depression, delusions of persecution and repeated suicide attempts stemming from a "very depressing life situation after 13 August , 1961.
Anonymous, denouncing letters appear at key moments in O'Brien's story, and the sense of persecution by locals is repeated when she builds her "large" house in Co Donegal.
His accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them, an idea repeated in a play by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The defendants have so far escaped execution only because their families -- all farmers and workers -- were willing to bear official persecution and severe financial strains to mount repeated legal appeals.
While "Silence" is structured like a Western, it evokes the tone and the substance of Second World War dramas, starting with the repeated mention of Nagasaki as the center of anti-Christian persecutions.
"My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought" was his equally famous remark, often repeated as proof of his brave, unshakable character.
