Sentences with phrase «for outsider status»

Garfield's Peter already had a restless, restless streak in him — a chip on his shoulder for his outsider status — which made his choice to become a vigilante crime fighter make more sense.

The obvious candidate for outsider status in this year's last eight is Atlético Madrid, who were competing in the Europa League last season.

Not exact matches

It's also been a key political asset, granting a measure of outsider status in the electoral sphere and making it hard for opponents to land attacks.

Michael Grimm's bid for Congress, solidifying the outsider status he's seeking in the race.

Former Groton Mayor Heather Somers, who touted her «outsider» status on the campaign trail, has come a step closer to becoming an insider, winning a tight Republican primary for lieutenant governor.

Duesberg sometimes seems to relish his status as an outsider, portraying himself as a victim of groupthink who has been persecuted for daring to question the status quo.

This preference for marching to the beat of your own drum can give you a kind of «outsider» status — one that you embrace wholeheartedly.

Scrawny and socially awkward, his only friend a fishy sidekick in a robot suit (David Cross), Megamind comes to own his outsider status; Metro Man just as easily slides into the role life laid out for him.

Fellow countryman Guillermo del Toro, winner of the Best Director award, stressed his status as an immigrant on stage and described his film The Shape of Water as a «fairytale for troubled times» and a work expressing «empathy for the outsider», a less overt attack on the US President's attitude to the «bad hombres» in his homeland across the border.

Given how successfully Holmer's feature debut grappled with the outsider status of its protagonist — a boxing tomboy who hopes to break into a dance troupe — she seems to be an ideal match for the project.

Testament to Miller's enduring influence and outsider status: he's a sainted figure, for good reason.

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.

For then - Mayor Bloomberg, who envisioned education as an «influence - free zone,» the career lawyer's outsider status and experience attacking monopolies made him exactly right to shake up the status quo.

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.

Wanted to also talk for just a moment about your outsider status when you were a teenager dropped in Rye.

The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, for example, features an immigrant protagonist with a vague criminal past who is constantly confronted with their outsider status.

Work produced in special studios for the disabled sometimes gets treated as a likely candidate for Outsider Art status, simply because the artists are obviously marginalized, and because their work might look closer to some kind of uncontaminated and «original» creativity.

One has a long way to go before the proud outsider status of lesbians in art for Opie or Mary Ellen Mark, but she was another kind of outsider altogether.

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.

It's a quality shared with Henri Rousseau, with whom Eilshemius was grouped in Museum Folkwang's recent «In the Shadow of the Avant - Garde»: both were ambivalent about academicism, both somehow avant - garde and vernacular, both candidates for the contested status of «outsider artist».

For outsiders, like you or even me, the very issue — of Americans having easy access to weapons — and its seemingly intransigent status in itself is baffling, simply because of the alienness of it.