Sentences with phrase «as social misfits»

Not exact matches

The blanket confidence of extroverts generally casts them as warm and approachable, while introverts seem to get lumped in with social misfits, and are thought to be closed and detached.

Nevertheless, because the church provided an alternative rhetoric and organization its social space attracted political dissidents (and misfits) as well as convinced believers and eager seekers.

Turn the clock back 20, 30, or 40 years and you would have these same exact remarks being made about unmarried North American women!!!! We were seen as social aberrations, deviants, misfits who - by the fact that we were pregnant and not married - had definitely proved that we were in no way qualified to raise our children.

Included amongst them were Robert Iscove's Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling's Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari).

While it may be tempting to dismiss their owners as obsessive eccentrics and social misfits who prefer canines to humans, FOR THE LOVE OF DOG reaches beyond the stereotype to examine this bizarre sub-culture.

The fourth friend, Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is painted as a slightly disturbed loner / social misfit who latches onto his new buddies in an unhealthy way, as well as saying and doing increasingly odd things; he's apparently aiming for laughs, but these antics land sickeningly, with silence.

When a brusque, reclusive fishmonger living a hardscrabble existence in the wilds of Nova Scotia employs Maud as his live - in housekeeper, the two social misfits find unexpected love and a lifetime partnership.

Ferrell favorite writer / director Adam McKay doesn't hit the comic alchemy of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but Wahlberg is terrific as the misguided maverick exasperated by his social misfit partner Ferrell.

After this she moved to the Minneapolis Tribune as the first woman police reporter and later as the reporter responsible for covering social change during which she wrote about «militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.»