Sentences with phrase «by outsiders like»

Astorino clearly sees this as a way to cut into the governor's vast lead in polls, claiming that Albany can only be cleaned up by an outsider like himself and not a product of state politics like Andrew Cuomo.

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Today, it's a messaging platform like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or WeChat and is known as an easy place to create group chats and for its focus on encryption and privacy, protecting conversations from being viewed by outsiders.

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

When one is surrounded by people who blindly subscribe to the rat - race, it can make one feel like an outsider.

Ethnic lawyers, even when engaged in trader - like activities, tended to regard themselves, and to be perceived by establishment lawyers, as outsiders.

To outsiders the change might seem like a demotion of sorts, but the move was probably made at Wall's request in an effort to diminish the controversy generated by his affiliation with the website.

I feel that adequate writing about a religion by an outsider requires an imaginative recognition that if, say, I had been born a Hindu I would presumably remain a Hindu, if born a Muslim I would presumably remain a Muslim, but if born a German I like to think that I would not have been a Nazi.

For an outsider, a football game looks like a bunch of really big people sumo wrestling for a while until a guy actually uses his hand (obviouly illegal) to throw a ball to someone who escaped the attempted murder by asphyxiation, and is running for his life.

The discontent they have generated and their contentious nature have made Costa Rica, a country usually known for political moderation and avoidance of political extremes, a fertile ground for a demagogue like Juan Diego Castro, who has managed to stand out from the rest of the candidates by fashioning himself as a brazen and outspoken outsider, even though he was a Minister from 1994 - 97.

For Westminster outsiders, questions should be submitted by the MP him / herself using the parliamentary intranet, but, like most things, MPs often get their researchers to do them instead.

If you think it should be easier for outsiders to run for office, and if you'd like to see cross-endorsements by political parties banned because they rob you of choices in elections, vote yes.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

'' [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.»

The newly contacted had no immunity to diseases carried by outsiders, and the flu virus, he recalls, «was like a suicide bomber,» stealing into a village unnoticed.

The research paper «Preservation of 5300 year old red blood cells in the Iceman» -LRB-[free access] Interface: Journal of the Royal Society) written by Marek Janko, Robert W. Stark, and Albert Zink helps outsiders like me better understand why there is excitement about finding blood, from the Introduction to the paper (footnotes have been edited out),

Like human culture, chimpanzee cultures likely arise when new behaviors are introduced to a population either through immigration by an outsider into an established group or by invention from within [6]--[9].

Like Eastern Europe, the Italian peninsula was invaded by outsiders during the first millennium.

Things like your email address etc. should never be used by the website to give or sell to outsiders.

To an outsider, the rule that forbids a widower from raising a child alone feels like a cruel injustice and despite being made by a relative outsider (Weinstein is Jewish but not Orthodox), the film doesn't linger on outrage.

It feels like these roles could only be played by these actors, that only Martin McDonagh could imagine this world, which is essentially an outsider's view — McDonagh is Irish — of contemporary America.

She seems, perhaps, like your typical teen, hanging out with her friends, Bella (Wilma Holmén) and Momo (Louise Nyvall), bullied by classmates and generally feeling like an awkward outsider.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

In December, the Music Box will be showing Jean - Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders, which, like Point Blank, is one of the last great crime films, daring to reimagine the genre by reworking its various elements into something that's both thought provoking and highly entertaining.

As good as the two teen actors are — Nélisse, 16, reminds me of Anna Karina from Jean - Luc Godard's «Band of Outsiders» and Wiggins, 17, is like a young Matt Damon — they're almost outdone by the menacing brilliance of seasoned players Paxton and Feore, who don't often do villains this hiss - worthy.

Pfeiffer, who has often struggled being funny in comedies over the years, actually does deliver a likeable, and quite amusing performance, ingratiating herself by taking on the less glamorous role of a woman whose looks are fading to the point where she often feels like an outsider looking into a world she is supposed to be front and center of.

«When you know something intimately, and you love it, you feel like you can show something about it that an outsider would not be able to,» Gerwig said by telephone.

The most important diagnosis of weirdness is not in the eye of the beholder but the beheld, and Nadine — bullied as a kid, then roughed up by an early loss — wears her outsider status like a security blanket.

This is when the film turns into a Straw Dogs type of movie about a big city outsider not being liked by the small town crowd.

This Peter feels like an outsider by choice.

This means that «Outsiders» — which is created by Peter Mattei and co-produced by Peter Tolan (FX's «Rescue Me»), Michael Wimer and actor Paul Giamatti (yep)-- initially seems like a mediocre attempt to promote inbred bumpkin stereotypes and watch characters swig moonshine (the prized «Farrell wine») while attacking one another with hunting knives.

It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.

There are also those who, threatened and offended by the notion of programs like New Leaders, question the fundamental legitimacy of bringing in outsiders.

However, Newton — speaking for many of his classmates — says, «From an outsider's point of view, we don't have a lot of structure, but we just have a different definition of structure, and I feel like we're learning more by doing it that way.»

Will any student or parent be made to feel like an outsider, not a full member of the community, by this activity?

Teenagers often feel like outsiders — alienated by others and their surroundings.

To an outsider it might seem like pandemonium, but it will be controlled and orchestrated by people who know fully what they are doing.

Outsiders ready to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital distribution to shake up traditional business models include the likes of 24Symbols (for ebooks) and Bardowl (for audiobooks).

With that and the comment by Tim O'Reilly about literary fiction, I am beginning to feel like an outsider here.

Cats recognize each other by smell, so your cat may be treated like an outsider by her housemates after she returns home because she smells like the vet office.

CIG, from an outsider's perspective, appears to have failed comprehensively on both fronts (64bits in June 2015 reads like a miss, and apparently Smart offered them help at the outset and was ignored — also a miss), but the company has now paid for that failure by doing everything itself.

What we said: «In general, Death of the Outsider occasionally feels like a Dishonored 3 that hasn't quite become flesh and perhaps, never will, going by sales of the second game and of Arkane's most recent immersive sim, Prey.

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

A joyously crowded exhibition aiming to mingle contemporary artists with so - called «outsiders,» this show also includes pieces that aren't strictly art at all — like a 19th - century Japanese futon cover hung next to (and partially under) a dyed - textile painting by Cheryl Donegan.

She buys from exhibitions of outsider artists as well, so there's all these weird pictures by them too, which you'd think I'd really like.

As a result of looking at so - called outsider artists like Adolf Wölfli, some of Dubuffet's compositions from the 1950s are entirely covered with obsessively detailed marks, serpentine lines based on the practice of automatism pioneered by the Surrealists.

The recent creative history of Winnipeg brings up a number of successful artists influenced by Dadaists, graffiti art, and outsider artists like Henry Darger.

Characterized by child - like imagery, this Western - style category of primitive art is also known as «Outsider art», «Naive art», or Art Brut («raw art») and is exemplified by the work of Henri Rousseau «Le Douanier» (1844 - 1910): see, for instance, his masterpieces The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) and The Dream (1910), both at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

A smaller assembly is The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), featuring works by artists like Aloise, Henry Darger, Madge Gill, Hauser, J.B. Murry, Oswald Tschirtner, Van Genk, Wolfli, Zemankova, and others.

For the same reason, I've never liked the idea of ghostwritten blog posts or social media feeds managed by outsiders.

By 2015, Facebook had severely restricted the amount of data available to outsiders, but by then app developers like Mr. Kogan already had data about Facebook users in hanBy 2015, Facebook had severely restricted the amount of data available to outsiders, but by then app developers like Mr. Kogan already had data about Facebook users in hanby then app developers like Mr. Kogan already had data about Facebook users in hand.