Sentences with phrase «home as an outsider»

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A major problem is to tell the story in such a way that people hear it as contemporary and relevant.51 John Taylor pointed out that we could reach outsiders not by anything we do inside the church buildings but by crossing over to the outsiders and learning to be at home in that alien territory, as the more we are engaged in Christian witness, the more we shall recognize that it is not we who make or mar the future.

The Eagles are implied for 25.25 points as -7.5 home favorites against the Broncos, who last year were fifth against tight ends in Football Outsiders» Defense - Adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA).

There were many doubts from pundits and outsiders as to whether Tottenham Hotspur could put together a good run of form in their temporary new home before the season began.

Despite Brighton having some solid home form, the Seagulls have been priced up as the 15/2 outsiders here with Betfred.

Despite their home advantage, the Gunners entered the match as the outsiders.

But the fundamental nettle is: If an outside force such as the NDC can penetrate the NPP camp now in the home turf in Ghanaian politics, what is the guarantee that a future NPP government can not be penetrated by other outsiders who will definitely see the loopholes to use against Ghana's interests?

Gallagher, a stay - at - home father of four, similarly felt it was his status as a political outsider, a former career in technology systems, and a determination to address affordable housing made him stand out.

There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological outsider he plays here (forever excluded from home, as the doorway shots at beginning and end suggest), but it hardly matters, given the film's visual splendou

Jason Statham (Redemption, Parker) stars as ex-undercover DEA agent Phil Broker, the outsider with a new identity who relocates to his deceased wife's small home town in Louisiana after a major drug bust reveals his true identity to the motorcycle - gang kingpin (Zito, Jimmy Hollywood) whose son ends up dead.

It's repainted itself as a tribute to the outsiders, to the dreamers, to those who've always felt like they're on the outside and finally find a home among one another, rather than in seeking the approval of others.

The feature directorial debut of talented newcomer Josh Trank, this mix of teen angst and Marvel Comics heroics stars young DiCaprio lookalike Dane DeHaan as Andrew, a Seattle senior juggling a miserable school life (he's pigeonholed as geeky outsider) with an even worse home life (invalid mother; drunken, abusive father).

The story reads like Beth's journal as she encounters obstacles in her new community — having all her belongings stolen at the train station, being treated as an outsider, struggling with illness and uncovering the threat hidden in the woods around her new home.

For all their cultural sophistication, the Sai children wonder if their lives as perennial outsiders made it impossible for them to feel at home anywhere.

Fereiba describes herself as «an outsider in my father's home» as a child, and then becomes a literal outsider as a refugee.

She's an outsider in the Japanese village in her Western hat and purse, as awkward as her father was when he first left home.

He was criticized in the art world as an outsider to his adopted home, a white tourist sampling a poor, brown country.

As an outsider in America, De Balincourt has never shied away from targeting dark social and political home truths to spike his work with something that doesn't slip down very easily.

While living and working in such places as France, Costa Rica, California, the Midwest, Germany, and her home of New York City, Michele Brody's career is based on a process of working in collaboration with new communities in the development of an interpretation of the sense of a place as an outsider looking in.

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.

Although the lands of the Nature Reserve may appear to outsiders to be but a part of a wider, harsh, inhospitable, even frightening, landscape, traditional owners see them as welcoming, and speak of the Nature Reserve and its surrounds as «good country», and as «home».

For example, those who grew up in divorced families were far more likely than those with married parents to say that they felt like a different person with each parent, that they sometimes felt like outsiders in their own home and that they had been alone a lot as a child.