But Moore was an unwed mother of suspect character.
Vivaldi was a fiery, arrogant, faintly suspect character, whose life is documented only in intriguing glimpses.
For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama "Barack the Wealth Spreader," seems to be something of a suspect character herself.
He did object to a Maraschino cherry or its juice, saying that they fouled an honest drink and revealed a "suspect character".
But because I'm coming to hang out with the people and see what they're like, they think I'm a suspect character".
But for Arthur, another New York baron whose suspect character and surprising elevation spurred much public outcry, the story is different a political fairy tale, contrary to Garfield's dream, of partial but astonishing redemption.
As Greg Sargent of The Washington Post has pointed out, there's a common theme to these whoppers and a number of other things Mr. Romney has said: the strategy is clearly to portray the president as a suspect character, someone who doesn't share American values.
According to Donald Spoto, author of Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius, the director hired private detectives to check up on her, had her handwriting analysed for signs of morally suspect character and tried to control where she went and what she wore in her private life.
A person who fabricates or embellishes their own life story — whether to sell books or win political office — has a loose attachment to the truth and a suspect character.
From Persephone's pomegranate to Alice's mushroom to Goblin Market to Edmund's Turkish Delight in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, there's always a penalty to be paid when anyone in a tale or myth eats food served by a suspect character.
