Sentences with phrase «much as an outsider»

I will attempt to add some comments about Catholic theology during this period, realizing that I speak very much as an outsider.

In truth, England enter the tournament very much as outsiders to win the tournament, which may not be a bad thing.

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It may seem counterintuitive to outsiders, but as a busy college student and entrepreneur, you likely just don't have time to do all that much Tweeting, and thoughts of posting to Facebook and LinkedIn for your business are constantly taking a backburner to much more pressing activities.

But some outsiders are concerned that may not be as relevant in an era when millennials are enthralled more by value than by top - of - the - line science, by sustainability as much as performance.

The article does not devote much detail to the inability of employers to control outsiders as compared to its own employees.

An alien, an outsider who incurred the hate and fear of both the masses and the authorities, Jesus was executed because of who he was as much as for what he did.

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.

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.

In a similar vein, Boswell says that homosexuals are «outsiders,» and as a consequence are like «political dissidents in totalitarian regimes, Jews in Nazi Germany, the left - handed in much of the world.»

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.»

I don't believe the outsider feeling came so much from being a woman in an overwhelmingly male environment as it did from being a layperson surrounded by future priests.

Was I as much of an outsider to God as I was in Nain?

As for why Oregon's Football Outsiders ratings are so much higher this year than last, a commenter at Football Study Hall actually already handled this one pretty well: statistically, Oregon more or less fought LSU to a draw back on Labor Day weekend.

Arsenal remain the outsiders in what has become a three horse race for the title but they're giving themselves every chance of lasting the course as I feel this team still has so much more to offer.

I guess in the countries with the highest rates, it is as much a political problem (severe violence within the country making it unsafe for outsiders to try to help) as a money problem.

Ricky will run as the anti-Andy, pretending to be an outsider, much as Cuomo is.

Now outsiders who pay # 3 have as much sway over the leadership as he did.»

There is much to reform in the Bronx Democratic party and much dysfunction to weed out — and Rivera seems to be playing his role as outsider with grudging insider support intelligently.

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.

Giuliani criticized the Republicans who are backing away from Trump as a result of the tape's revelations, saying: «They largely didn't support him in the first place, so it is not so much of a surprise... and this is basically the insiders against the outsiders anyway.»

What Diane clearly has to a much larger extent than the other possible candidates (other than Doreen Lawrence) is the ability to present as an outsider, the very characteristic that used to carry Ken Livingstone to victory.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is running for governor as an outsider, pledging to remake the much - maligned morass of state government that he has called a «disgrace.»

That wouldn't matter if our top firms were stodgy and closed to outsiders, as much of American industry was until the last few decades of the 20th century.

Statistical agencies have had much more experience in knowing where to draw the line, the official notes, citing as an example the cautious process the Census Bureau followed more than 2 decades ago in creating a network of secure data centers, where outsiders can access sensitive data under tight supervision.

A 2006 analysis of 4,500 pairs of twins in APSR found that as much as half of the variation in their beliefs about social organizing principles such as leadership, outsiders, defense spending and traditional values could be attributed to genetics.

Most of the high - end resorts along the Riviera Maya offer some tourist version of the temazcal ceremony for visitors, gouging outsiders for as much as $ 1,000 for a private couple's ceremony.

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

For as much as the film delights in The Room's bizarre splendor, at the end of the day, it's more interested in a tale of outsider ambition and friendship.

Instead it feels very much like the «quality» Hollywood system — complete with Judd Apatow's cameo as a truth - telling producer — pointing at a rank outsider and noticing everything he did wrong.

It feels like a start, maybe, but would have been so much better served as a story told from a perspective other than that of male outsiders like Lucas and Moore, who turn their heroines into unconvincing femme - bros.

Much of the drama in «A Fantastic Woman» has a free - flowing, observational quality, as Marina attempts to reconcile her romantic personality with a society that views her as an outsider.

If we just treat this guy as any other artist, an outsider artist, it'll become much more than a spoof.

This year the movies moved to a much edgier beat, tackling such tough issues as racism («Get Out»), revenge («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), fear of outsiders («The Shape of Water»), poverty («The Florida Project») amongst others.

As much with looks and body language as with dialogue, Hader and Wiig create the sense that they share a private world and language, one unknowable to outsiderAs much with looks and body language as with dialogue, Hader and Wiig create the sense that they share a private world and language, one unknowable to outsideras with dialogue, Hader and Wiig create the sense that they share a private world and language, one unknowable to outsiders.

De Souza's script aims not at Foley's outsider status so much as seeing violence taking place in and around a theme park full of families and young children.

His films Black Girl, Xala and Moolaadé are often recognized as the greatest films ever from the continent, exploring much more than the outsider view we so often see.

Other parents view opting out as a form of outsider protest; they support public education, but believe that high - stakes standardized tests have become the tail that wags the dog, driving far too much of what occurs in their children's classrooms.

It's rare that academic expectations get as much attention as they have here in Indiana — but for the average parent or interested outsider, it's hard to have an opinion on a debate that's so full of jargon and nuance.

Or maybe it's simply economics — with so much beach, maybe it doesn't seem as special to the locals as it does to a wide - eyed outsider like me.

She's just as much of an outsider as Finn, especially after ugly, untrue rumors about Petey and a boy at a party spread in that pernicious small - town way.

Even though the people of Bone Gap are suspicious of outsiders, they were quickly taken by the beautiful Polish girl with an uncanny feel for dirt and plants and livestock, but none so much as Finn's brother, Sean, who seems to lose a piece of himself when she disappears.

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.

Much as I'd like to subscribe to a romantic notion that an outsider can change things, I believe that all meaningful change comes from the inside.

He can come across as the belated heir of Kurt Schwitters and Surrealism in America — or as a folk artist and outsider obsessive enough to have turned out so much in this one series alone.

Roberta Smith of The Times, who often singles out new work touched by native traditions, has called for fully integrating folk art and Americana into museum displays of past decades, much as another show has claimed outsider art in Switzerland as an inspiration for Abstract Expressionism.

They're as comfortable leaving their imprint on the streets as they are making paintings on wood and canvas to be shown in galleries, and cull their imagery as much from outsider art, Brazilian folklore, and global hip - hop culture, as from their own private mythology.

Parsons gave Bess six solo shows from 1951 to 1967, which demonstrates the extent to which this outsider was also very much an insider, as driven to exhibit his work as any painter in a downtown loft.

It might appear to an outsider that multi million computers and multi million dollar research grants provide as much assistance as chicken entrails or used tea leaves do, in relation to ascertaining the future.

Outsiders may bring in new ideas, but much more often they repeat unknowingly well known ideas and quite often they make severe errors that they don't recognize as specialists would.

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.