Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

American Author

Robert Dallek

Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.

American Historian

James Wolcott

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

American Critic

David Leavitt

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

American Novelist

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

Iraqi Public Servant

Nelson Mandela

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

South African Statesman

Sean Parker

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

American Businessman

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

Canadian Businessman

Lactantius

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

Author

John C. Reilly

I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

American Actor

Use 'besiege' to describe military tactics in historical or fantasy contexts.

Warfare Context

'Besiege' implies a prolonged effort, not a quick assault.

Extended Siege

To 'besiege' suggests active containment, preventing entry or escape.

Active Confinement

Use 'besiege' to describe being overwhelmed figuratively by things like problems, not just physically by people.

Figurative Overwhelm

Besiege' can convey the stress and pressure felt by the person being bothered.

Emotional Impact

'Besiege' shows that the requests or disturbances are continuous and burdensome.

Persistent Disturbance

 on planet Earth. They've been bombed by the military, they've been besieged, they've been stormed by ISIS and they've been cut off from supplies for years. There was a UN official who visited last year, and he said, "They ate all the grass so there was no grass left."

Two Nameless Bodies...

 And the starting point is the -- for that discussion was the fact that we have all been subject to the advice of the parenting industrial complex. Now, here is -- here is a representative quote from a besieged

Steven Pinker: Human...

 these besieged plants have actually sent up a chemical mist an SOS to these black wasps why because black wasps are known as a feed killers and some aphids are busily sucking the life out of these plants now

Body-Snatching Wasp...

 Three fearsome figures haunted his a massive, writhing shadow; a shambling, rotting corpse; and worst of all, a monstrous beast with a deadly bite. Night after night, the creatures besieged the king.

The myth of Loki’s...

 tells an apocalyptic story much of the wording has eroded but what remains is a vivid tale of Jerusalem besieged by armies and a final battle in which a prince of princes will combat the Antichrist

The Messiah Before...

 In 479 BC, when Persian soldiers besieged the Greek city of Potidaea, the tide retreated much farther than usual, leaving a convenient invasion route.

How tsunamis work - Alex...

 folding their wings behind them to minimize the force of impact. Besieged on all sides, the sardine defense starts to fail.