Sentences with phrase «of social outcasts»

Ghostly creatures in long white cloaks, screaming monkeys and melting faces of social outcasts and storybook characters make up the haunting, textured landscape of Schulnik's world.

Director Sean Baker, whose last film was Tangerine, a remarkable movie about transgender prostitutes in West Hollywood, brings his humanist eye to another community of social outcasts: a group of children spending their summer making mischief at the low - cost motels on the strip leading up to Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.

Those familiar with Welcome to the Dollhouse perhaps envisaged a life of staunch individualism from this icon of social outcasts, and yet in Wiener - Dog, although endearing, she is almost pathetically passive, dull, and, worst of all, sad.

Barnum's success depended upon the exploitation of social outcasts — lowly citizens with behavioral eccentricities and physical deformities that he promoted as carnival attractions.

Once again, Sean Baker delivers an exhilarating, compassionate film about a group of social outcasts rarely seen on screen.

Not only does this affect my enjoyment but as you say it turns me into a bit of a social outcast.

Both of these films are exercises in pure empathy, using as they do the example of the social outcast or outsider (Joseph «The Elephant Man» Merrick and Alvin Straight, respectively) to show us how to better connect with our fellow human.

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Much of the chatter on jihadi chat boards comes from Europeans and Americans, often social outcasts living vicariously through the online reputation of their handle — including disenfranchised teens or jailhouse Muslim converts turned radicals, Scott said.

That same day, News Corp. finalized the deal that would make official MySpace's dramatic fall from a social media powerhouse — acquired by Rupert Murdoch & Co. for $ 580 million in July 2005 — to an outcast unloaded for the bargain - basement price of $ 35 million.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

Laxness in observance of fasts and friendship with religious and social outcasts could certainly be regarded as related to one another, but only in a quite general way.

But if he should begin to display his hobby in ordinary social gatherings, or to imagine that his knowing the works of Emily Dickinson entitled him to some measure of respect not accorded to those who had gotten no further than page three of The Sun, then it was time to put him in his place as a social outcast.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

The «spiritual but not religious» movement is a reflection of the fact that atheists are still social outcasts.

In my own life I have had struggles and it led me to some 12 step groups and its funny, but the 12 steps are really based on some pretty biblical ideas - equality of person before each other - in other words the social outcast is equal to the executive in the meeting.

He secured the passage of the Lunacy Act of 1845, which for the first time treated the insane as a «person of unsound mind», rather than as a social outcast.

This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.

The sense of not belonging, of being unaccepted by the social, ethical, and religious requirements of his times led him to identify in a special way with the outcasts in order to give them a new and more secure sense of relationship, and therefore of life.

This social outcast cried out to Jesus: «Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me.»

The working class youngster is less likely to be a loner, and unless he conforms socially and morally to the mores of the group in which he moves, then he will become a social outcast.

Jesus got into trouble for eating with social outcasts because for the Jews, meal is also a symbol of fellowship with God.

He chafed against the limits of social propriety by welcoming prostitutes and adulterers, crooks and outcasts into his gracious presence.

The elderly should not be great social outcasts, but a living «overpass» between generations; not a dead end but a well - lighted avenue to lead younger people into the riches of a superlative time of life.»

But the effect of their presence is basically contradictory to the Christian message, which stresses the importance of the anonymous, the outcast, and the value of those who have not been able to make it in social terms.

The Exodus story of Yahweh's redemption of an oppressed people, the prophetic protest against neglect of the poor, Jesus» proclaiming the good news to social outcasts — this theme of divine concern for those who lack power and possessions is too dominant for us to ignore when we ask what God is like.

There's been some bizarre activity on the Instagram account of Manchester United outcast Memphis Depay, suggesting that the Dutch winger may be the latest Premier League footballer to have had his social media accounts hacked.

We were admonished that our children would grow into spoiled brats if we responded to their needs instead of teaching them to «deal with it» and «self - soothe» their own, and would end up as social outcasts or criminals if we encouraged and guided them instead of spanking them.

, a 22 yr old family therapist, a 17 yr old entering his third year of pre-med, 12 and 5 yr old beautiful and well - behaved homeschooled girls with lots of friends (soooo not social outcasts!)

Do you skip lunch with your coworkers at the risk of being a social outcast?

Anna Faris leads a pack of female outcasts in a revolution against the usual college and social hierarchy types who don't like nonconformity from their wimmen critters.

George Miller's strange - but - charming Happy Feet theorizes that if a papa penguin drops the egg, it won't kill the chick inside, as was so fervently, memorably anfd heartwrenchingly noted in March of the Penguins... it'll just rattle his innards, turning him into a mildly eccentric potential social outcast who can't sing like the rest of his breed, but can shake his tail feathers like Fred, Ginger AND Bojangles!

On the other end of the spectrum is Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a twelve - year - old social outcast whose mother Fiona (Toni Collette) raises him on her own.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

It's refreshing that its main characters don't really feel inspired to do more than goof off with their mysterious powers; it's a quietly brilliant touch that one of them is a social outcast with a dying mother and an abusive father.

As the bus heads further west, she meets an assortment of eccentrics and social outcasts who make her question where she's been and where she's going.

We learn the story of 9 year old John Bennett, a social outcast who receives a teddy bear for Christmas.

As mentioned, The Raven follows the final days of Edgar Allan Poe's life — presenting the tortured author as a self - absorbed and desperate social outcast whose work was still, at the time, mostly under - appreciated.

Miyazaki designed Irontown to feel like a settlement created by social outcasts much like the ones in classic westerns while basing the details of village life in traditional Japanese customs.

Playing a lonely social outcast, Plaza spends many of her introductory scenes acting opposite a phone screen, something she shares with her fellow should - be Oscar contender Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper.

He also elevated their social status because if you pick on someone considered an outcast and get in trouble for it, it only makes you «cooler» in the eyes of your peers.

After being paired with a social outcast in health class, Coop feels that he must win a battle of the bands with his buddies to regain his reputation.

These paired graphic novels tell the same story from two perspectives, those of Little Bao, who leads his community against Peking, and Four - Girl, a social outcast who devotes herself to the Christian faith.

Believing this to be the case, and, of course, wanting our dogs to be happy (and not wanting to be a social outcast who says «no» to other owners), we allow them to drag us over to random dogs at their discretion and peril.

Missionization By the time European explorers arrived in the Santa Barbara Channel, there were some 21 villages on the three largest islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, with highly developed social hierarchies that featured an upper class of chiefs, shamans, boat builders, and artisans, a middle class of workers, fisherman, and hunters, and a lower class of the poor and outcast.

One game which if I want to play with my friends I will have no choice but to pick up the newest version every year or risk being a social outcast I am of course talking about FIFA.

has led us to the conclusion, so far, that art is not a free, autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual, «influenced» by previous artists, and, more vaguely and superficially, by «social forces,» but rather, that the total situation of art making, both in terms of the development of the art maker and in the nature and quality of the work of art itself, occur in a social situation, are integral elements of this social structure, and are mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions, be they art academies, systems of patronage, mythologies of the divine creator, artist as he - man or social outcast.

Women have long been treated and portrayed as outcasts, banished to a literal or symbolic wilderness on the fringes of the social order.