Sentences with phrase «by their outsider status»

Bound together by their outsider status, the two men strike up an uneasy friendship — a dangerous association that will set off a new wave of violence and unleash Sam's darkest demons.

That's smart because even though he's tipped to be a villain simply by his outsider status, the way he ingratiates himself into the family makes him empathetic even when he's violent.

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Precisely because of their «industry outsider» status, the team has been able to reimagine the traditional customer experience, unencumbered by long - held notions of what might or might not work in the industry.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

A terrible start to the campaign under Ancelotti (including a chastening 3 - 0 defeat by Paris Saint - Germain), big money signings by the European superpowers and the imperious form of both Barcelona and Manchester City have relegated the German giants to «outsider status» in this competition.

Where the party do gain a platform at the debates, they will be accompanied by the Green Party, UKIP, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru — parties which now occupy the outsider status which the Liberal Democrats once claimed.

Though Fischer has not yet been endorsed by the other Republican Committees in the 20th District, he said his status as political outsider gives him a different perspective than the incumbent Congressman.

This might sound a little beside the point with a murderer on the loose, but Beast is less concerned with the usual whodunit mechanics than the queasy climate of suspicion the murders have stirred up on the island, and the way in which Moll responds to it by crazily — yet also in a sense horribly understandably — doubling down on her outsider status.

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by Sarah Ward «In Boaz Yakin's Safe, Jason Statham plays his usual part, complete with outsider status, superior combat skills and the motivation of a substantial vendetta»

They are fascinated by the trade, but are constantly reminded of their outsider status in an industry tailored to reward men.

Although the actor debuted in the 1981 movie Endless Love followed by The Outsiders, Risky Business and All the Right Moves, Cruise, who has gone on to become one of Hollywood's highest paid actors, cemented his status as an up and coming actor in this role as a naval pilot in the 1986 movie Top Gun.

Voiced in the American version by child actor Mackenzie Foy and the perpetually gruff Forest Whitaker («Lee Daniels» The Butler»), Celestine and Ernest form a friendship based on their mutual outsider status.

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.

Not until you get a little older do you appreciate that Monty Python earned their outsider status by being a satirical animal as opposed to a slapstick one — that the lengths to which they'd go for a joke has more to do with camouflage than with their stated goal of silliness.

Pam Grady: Eight years after his arresting feature debut Medicine Melancholy, director Barry Jenkins returns with Moonlight, a riveting portrait of a gay youngster in Florida (portrayed in boyhood, adolescence, and adulthood by three separate actors) coping with his outsider status, bullying, and his mother's addiction.

The race for the state's top schools job has long followed a familiar pattern: A state legislator, anointed by the Democratic establishment and the teachers unions, faces off against political outsiders who want to bust up the Sacramento status quo.

There is an implicit populism to the exhibition, a trumpeting of each artist's outsider status, or at least a sense of frustration with the art world's perceived exclusivity, but a great deal of the work hinges on the viewer's ability to pick up on insider - only references, exacerbated by the exhibition's lack of sufficient explanatory texts for conceptual projects.

Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen brings together works by two American artists who bonded over their «insider - outsider status in the New York art scene» of the 1950s.

Objects that hold a personal resonance are raised to the status of relics despite their interpretation as banal or grotesque by the outsider.

When outsiders threatened to invade the bar's homogeneity, the profession reacted harshly and often without much reflection... By contrast, when social, economic or technological change was occurring around the profession, the profession's calm became intractability and myopia... In either event, the profession sought the status quo and resisted «innovation and change that was being demanded,» even when change was inevitable or desirable.