Sentences with phrase «cast as an outsider»

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.

Both candidates accused one another of being too entrenched in the system to be in a position to cast themselves as the outsiders they both claimed to be, and concerns about campaign donations from questionable donors arose on both sides of the campaign.

Long and her validators cast her as an outsider in the style of Trump, and Republicans willing to make an on - record claim that she has a path to victory said it would be as part of his wave of populist, anti-establishment support.

The longtime Wisconsin political activist Mike McCabe joined the increasingly crowded Democratic field for governor on Tuesday, casting himself as an outsider from the left who will shake up the establishment.

It's nice that the film sympathizes with the victims of segregation and oppression, but by casting them as outsiders it is perpetuating the myth of the black African as «other» - when in fact it is was the Europeans who were the natural «others» in South Africa.

His early films often cast him as an outsider: in family fare like The Red Pony (Lewis Milestone, 1949) or Rachel and the Stranger (Norman Foster, 1948) he was never of the family, standing for another, more free - spirited way of life — he was a temptation, sent to test the family.

A first - person explorer where you're cast as an outsider in a surreal organic world that reacts to your presence.

Shape of the world is a first - person explorer where you're cast as an outsider in a surreal organic world that reacts to your presence.

Not exact matches

Gerson Borrero got ahold of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s first TV ad in which the scandal - scarred Bronx Democrat casts his primary opponent, Gustavo Rivera, as controlled by outsiders who «want to take out power away from us.»

Outsiders have suggested reforms, such as changing the number of votes one person can cast (currently, each voter casts three votes for three positions to be filled in their senate district) and prohibiting incumbent legislators from serving or, at the very least, banning them from increasing their pensions by doubling their salary for a year.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Throughout the primary process, they were cast as a group of political outsiders, disenfranchised by the Democratic establishment.

Most could be cast as surly outsiders, lashing out at friend and foe alike and tolerated only because they help to clear away the pests, an even worse crowd.

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine - Nine) as Bedlam, Lewis Tan (Iron Fist) as Shatterstar, Bill Skarsgard (It) as Zeitgeist, Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) as Russell, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Eddie Marsan (Atomic Blonde) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

If we are talking female indomitability, I would rather cast my ballot for Sally Hawkins's intensely watchful performances as the deaf - mute cleaning woman in «The Shape of Water» and the hobbled outsider artist in «Maudie.»

It allows the ensemble cast to shine without showing off: Michael Keaton, fresh from Birdman, makes a second, perhaps even better comeback as Bostonian Robby Robinson who heads up the paper's investigative team; Liev Schreiber is the paper's new editor, an outsider and Jewish in a heavily Catholic city; Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams are reporters on the front line, knocking on doors and digging out documents.

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

Speaking of Swayze and cradling, cast in Francis Ford Coppola's excellent adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders as responsible eldest brother Darry, shepherd to wayward Ponyboy (um, C. Thomas Howell — no fooling (Darren Daulton is also in both films)-RRB-, he turns in the film's keystone performance.

Even Fox's X-Men franchise has maintained a steady identity characterized by its large casts, themes of mutants as outsiders, and a hard - to - follow continuity.

The Guard took the Festival's spirit to heart with expert storytelling, a beautiful Irish setting, and exceptional performances by an accomplished cast led by Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the flinty local town cop and Don Cheadle as the FBI outsider investigating an international drug - smuggling ring who turns that cop's sleepy, workaday world completely upside down.

From collaborative developer Sectordub, it casts players as Piku, a fresh - faced, armless outsider who must help the townsfolk face their fears, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and rebuild a cheerful community in what promises to be a delightful dystopian adventure.

Set after the events of Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider casts you as Billie Lurk, who returns to the city of Karnaca seeking her mentor Daud (AKA The Knife of the Dunwall).

Although Cornell has often been cast as an art - world outsider and recluse, there is another, more nuanced perspective.

Featuring a cast of transsexuals, cross-dressers, prostitutes, hustlers, bikers, eccentrics, circus performers, street urchins, tearaways, gang members, back - street peddlers and survivalists, the works present the outsider as an agent of change.

Those who govern like to cast outsiders as the enemy, this is often a smoke - screen, xenophobia diverts the attention of the plebs from the real problems, which are often much closer to home.