Sentences with phrase «as an outsider trying»

He comes across as an outsider trying to get a feel for the situation, making his motivations hard to pin down.

The inherent awkwardness of this character trying to blend in portrays my experiences as an outsider trying to fit in to my environment.

Not exact matches

In other words, try to look at the situation bothering you as an outsider, or using a longer - term perspective.

After years of cleaning up her party's name and trying desperately to distance it from her father's racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, it seems that Le Pen believes she has now found the sweet spot between being mainstream enough to get votes but also being seen as enough of an outsider to bring about change.

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Besides enjoying the planning, as an outsider I was attracted to the entrepreneurial clients, interesting men with a sense of themselves who were trying to make their mark and didn't mind challenging and dismantling rigid corporate empires.»

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquAs for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

Fifty years ago, Steve Saint was a 5 - year - old missionary kid in Ecuador whose father, Nate, was one of five men trying to reach out to the native Waodani tribe, who were known as merciless killers — of each other, and of outsiders.

As Burns suggested, these COAs may seem a bit daunting to the outsider trying to crack a new market, but they should not be a reason to put aside global expansion.

I guess in the countries with the highest rates, it is as much a political problem (severe violence within the country making it unsafe for outsiders to try to help) as a money problem.

Lazio has been trying throughout his campaign to cast himself as an outsider and Cuomo as an insider whose ties to Albany are too strong to allow him to clean up state government.

Lazio's campaign has repeatedly tried to undercut Cuomo's argument that he's an outsider, noting he has longstanding ties to Albany that date back to his father's days as governor.

They are lining - up to position the race against Eldridge as a campaign of personalities — Gibson, the local war hero from a working family vs. Eldridge, the multi-millionaire outsider trying to buy a Congressional seat.»

They're trying to portray him as an outsider — I don't know how much more inside you can be than never having had a job other than an elected official for your entire life,» DeFrancisco told POLITICO.

Females may use the differences in dialect to distinguish local males from outsiders that may not be as well adapted to the neighborhood they're trying to invade, the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science.

Often the protagonist is a starstruck outsider trying to get to the top (Anchors Aweigh), though just as often he's a Hollywood veteran down on his luck (Sunset Boulevard).

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a brutally honest motion picture; Rushmore starts out as one, but quickly turns into a fairly standard tale of the outsider who's trying to triumph while everyone is out to stifle his creativity.

Bad Rap follows the lives and careers of four Asian - American rappers trying to break into a world that often treats them as outsiders.

As Eben tries to uncover the root of the problem, he comes to the dark realization that outsiders are among them, and they are picking off the residents of Barrow one by one for reasons that eventually become apparent — they are vampires and it is time for a feeding.

Right on cue, as if the antenna of the world is finally listening, Jon's universe is transformed when he accidentally meets a strange, dysfunctional psych - rock outsider band (think a Shaggs - y version of the Velvet Underground meets Captain Beefheart and Daniel Johnston), the unpronounceable and cult - like Soronprfbs, who have lost their keyboardist to madness (trying to drown himself on a frigid English beachfront no less).

Peter grows up and we see him at school, where they try to paint Garfield's Parker as an outsider, though Gwen Stacy seems pretty into him from the start.

And as long as outsiders remain in the dark about its treasures and advancements, maybe no one will really try.

Suddenly the somewhat insecure Jemma feels like an outsider, for Brooke has a chip on her shoulder (because her parents are getting divorced) and tries to outdo Jemma at every opportunity, leaving Tammy as the unsuccessful peacemaker - in - the - middle.

She said she'd never return to the «lost souls» who made her famous:» [O] nce I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane.»

Always trying to turn their status as outsiders from a handicap to a benefit.

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Addressing his wide online audience through a web series titled «Art Thoughtz,» Hennessy Youngman assumes the perspective as an art world outsider trying to understand art.

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, although allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

She is not trying to pass as an outsider or graffiti artist.

This is an insider show from a group that tries very hard to appear as outsiders while being completely fluent in artspeak, increasingly known as International Art English.

That otherworldly feeling — as opposed to the this - world feeling of Martin's work — is something that many younger artists, inspired by outsider art, are trying to capture these days.

If they were enlarged, Lee's bristling, suspended structures might resemble shiny versions of the forest shacks and shelters built by the Canadian outsider architect Richard Greaves; or the booby - trapped mansion constructed between 1884 and 1922 by Sarah Winchester, the gun magnate's widow (as she tried to stave off death).

No matter how hard Judith tries to earn her «skeptic» bona fides and proclaim herself an outsider, when she has the temerity to acknowledge the reality of anthropogenic warming and the threat it poses, she's written off behind her back as a «warmer».

I know, jargon can be pretty fun to use and starts to get instinctive when you're around it for long enough, but step outside of your industry bubble for a bit and try to approach your resume as an industry outsider.

Try to approach your resume as an industry outsider.