Sentences with phrase «live as an outsider»

Kaluuya's main point, though, is tough to argue with: that as the British son of Ugandan immigrants, he's spent his life as an outsider.

This prejudice certainly contributed to his knowledge of what it means to live as an outsider, which is a theme of this novel.

This story focuses on JD and his unit leaving the COG to live as outsiders during a new war with new enemies.

Her life as an outsider surfaces in the portraits of workers in Spanish Harlem, where she lived in the 40s and 50s, and in the likenesses of her lovers — the wealthy Cuban who more or less abducted their only surviving child in the 20s; the cabaret singer José Negron; radical film - maker Sam Brody and Harvard graduate John Rothschild.

Not exact matches

It may feel like a club to the outsider because they don't have that same assurance or they see a certain few who are living as you say incorrectly.

While living as a homeless wanderer through Israel, Jesus was himself an outsider and spent his time with social pariahs: people who were in some way racially, financially, physically or morally different than those making up the majority in Judea.

We knew from the beginning that we were marked out, not as outsiders, but as people who had embarked on a shared way of life that would demand much of us, and give much in return.

For Heidegger, as perhaps for no other philosopher, the distinction between life and thought has meaning only if one perceives Heidegger's philosophy itself as self - confuting: So, the task is left to me, an outsider, to raise what may really be the quintessential Heideggerian question: the relation of his life to his thought.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquAs for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

On the other hand, the number of Christians who consider themselves members of this group is so remarkably large that it must startle the innocent outsider who, preoccupied with the problems of modern life, is apt to underestimate the number of those who cultivate their Christian traditionalism with a loyalty as curious as it is admirable.

-- «Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.»

The extreme opposites of the bi-nationalist school, the hard - line protagonists of violence and armed power as the only way to establish and maintain a Zionist settlement in Palestine (or over all of it), held that the Arabs were intransigently opposed to this venture and regarded the immigrating European Jews as racial outsiders, as intruders in their own ancestral living - space, and would harass and murder them and strangle their venture unless they were beaten back by superior fire - power.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own life of faith.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the truth — in the eyes of men, but not in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.

With zero live game experience it's next to impossible for us as outsiders to truly gauge Trask's level of «goodness» as a college QB.

Definitions vary according to the size of the window that constitutes life, (when it starts and stops), its quality or relative value as measured by those in power, (i.e. slaves regarded as half - people, uncharismatic mutations, the sick and aged, outsiders, outlaws, enemies, militarily weaker populations with confiscatable possessions, those with «fates worse than death», et al), and whose lives, (responsibility for all of a wars» deaths might be attributed to the defeated).

Nixon, in a speech in Brooklyn, portrayed herself as a political outsider but life long New Yorker who loves the state.

Speaking at an American Legion Hall in West Springfield, Gomez introduced himself as a fresh faced political outsider with an appealing life story.

For outsiders to arbitrarily determine that this is insufficient in their view is an insult to the people who live here, our district attorney, and the justice system as whole,» said Mr. Grimm.

Nixon, in a speech in Brooklyn, portrayed herself as a political outsider, but life - long New Yorker who loves the state.

They're trying to portray him as an outsider — I don't know how much more inside you can be than never having had a job other than an elected official for your entire life,» DeFrancisco told POLITICO.

Ummmm... outsider... as I recalled Espada lives in Westchester County.

Instead, subtler barriers, such as what the authors call «Goliath's shadow,» discourage outsiders from «challenging a [living] luminary.»

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.

Though once dismissed as an outsider, online dating now dominates single life and is very much part of mainstream culture.

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.

They see themselves reflected and represented in movies, these sad, frightened, lonely kids, these outsiders, and they know that, despite their seclusion, they're not alone as they watch the New York streets, teeming with life, through their cracked windows.

A coming - of - age story with a difference, Persepolis follows Marjane as she grows from a feisty, Bruce Lee - loving little girl living in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution to a disaffected outsider (first in Austria and then back in the country of her birth), to a young woman who knows too well that freedom and adulthood have their price.

So, as a Taiwanese, I can identify with the Southerners as the Yankees change their way of life forever, but I also identify more strongly with those outsiders, who grasp at freedom, and fight for it... Our story is about the very heart of America, even as this heart was — and still so often is — torn apart by racial and other conflicts.

The Amish community disapprove of a strange outsider staying in the widow's house, and rightfully so, as feelings begin to develop between the two that makes her question whether it is right or wrong to live such a repressive life.

It seems pretty clear that Manny is alive only in Hank's hallucinating mind, but their not - quite - Weekend at Bernie's dynamic compels as both a fast friendship of societal outsiders and a crash course on life.

Only Great Britain, adopting a very totalitarian government whose main purpose is to drive all refugees from other countries out, remains intact as a ruling nation, although the standard of living has been on a serious decline, with the brutal police and other authorities systematically torturing and killing those they deem as outsiders or troublemakers.

Nell Minow: Sally Hawkins gives an exquisite performance as the outsider artist whose vibrant, life - affirming paintings brought joy to everyone who saw them.

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.

Bad Rap follows the lives and careers of four Asian - American rappers trying to break into a world that often treats them as outsiders.

Living in paradise is not as glamorous or care free as many outsiders may believe, and the King family is a perfect example of it.

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).

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

Beast's sentient household items may not always ring true (Be Our Guest is perhaps too glossy to fit the live action setting), but you do buy into the notion that Belle, going to rescue her father from the Beast, should fall for him — just as you buy into the fear that the Beast faces from the villagers hostile to outsiders.

Mark, used to living in the shadow of more gregarious sibling, seized on du Pont as a benevolent father figure and fellow outsider.

Haynes and his cinematographer Ed Lachman were inspired by the work of photographer Saul Leiter who brilliantly captured the city, its mood, and the every day person from an outsider's perspective as if he was just peering into their lives for a moment.

Goodis, a well - educated Philadelphian, and an outsider for most of his life, came to Hollywood when his best - selling novel, «Dark Passage» was sold to Warner Brothers as a vehicle for the red hot movie team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

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.

The Outsider By Frederick Forsyth Putnam • $ 18 • ISBN 9781101981856 Subtitled «My Life in Intrigue,» this entertaing memoir by the author of the espionage classic The Day of the Jackal and 14 other thrillers recounts his adventurous life in high style, from enlisting in the RAF at 17 to his work as a journalist in many global hotspLife in Intrigue,» this entertaing memoir by the author of the espionage classic The Day of the Jackal and 14 other thrillers recounts his adventurous life in high style, from enlisting in the RAF at 17 to his work as a journalist in many global hotsplife in high style, from enlisting in the RAF at 17 to his work as a journalist in many global hotspots.

As cautious outsiders, we watch the inhabitants of these villages as they herd their children inside the huts while we pass, commanding them in one of the 100 dialects of their still - intact ancient language — a language they are reluctant to share with the eager anthropologists who come to study their way of lifAs cautious outsiders, we watch the inhabitants of these villages as they herd their children inside the huts while we pass, commanding them in one of the 100 dialects of their still - intact ancient language — a language they are reluctant to share with the eager anthropologists who come to study their way of lifas they herd their children inside the huts while we pass, commanding them in one of the 100 dialects of their still - intact ancient language — a language they are reluctant to share with the eager anthropologists who come to study their way of life.

Don't look at the culture you're visiting as an outsider, but inside dive in headfirst by interacting with locals, taking cultural classes, sampling typical dishes, attending community events and partaking in local life as much as possible.

At Ontological Geek, Michael Evenden explored coming to games as a complete outsider later in life.

A certain number of people though, known as «Outsiders», are living beyond the wall, having broken free from the rule of the COG.

Shadow of the Colossus features the protagonist, Wander and his trusted horse Aggro entering a wasted and forbidden land to hunt down the legendary Colossi in order to bring back to life a girl named Mono whose presence is seen as a curse by the outsiders.