Sentences with phrase «outcast status»

And from Aloy's outcast status to her subsequent rise as a hero, I'm invested with how she deals with the rampant disrespect she receives at every turn.

Shaw resists being defined as either a Kashmiri or an Islamic artist, and just as Sikander was attracted by the outcast status of the miniature, he turned to painting because his peers at Saint Martins looked down on it.

Could MOCA's happy ending and the National Academy's new outcast status alone raise suspicions?

And from Aloy's outcast status to her subsequent rise as a hero, I'm invested with how she deals with the rampant disrespect she receives at every turn.

Both have their families to thank for their outcast status: Patrick's father's hit and run has left the entire community wary of all the Cusimanos, and Verna's goth sister and fundamentalist parents make starting high school a nightmare.

Edward can not speak his love — he can not speak anything at all, really — and eventually his outcast status, deep affection, and inarticulateness combine to form the plot's engine.

The now united members of table 19 resolve to help Eloise get back at Teddy and bond over their outcast status.

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How To Win Founders and Influence Everybody (Wired) For years Wennmachers has quietly advanced a narrative that has shaped how the world sees Silicon Valley and how the Valley perceives itself — as a group of brainy outcasts upending the limits of the status quo.

The wisemen's recognition of kingship in a powerless infant, the angels» choice of humble shepherds to whom to announce the news, Jesus» birth as an outcast in a stable — all these point to a very different kind of king, to a power and truth that transcend worldly power and the socially acceptable status quo.

Even the pariah status of these beliefs echoes a Christian theme: the truth is revealed to despised outcasts and ridiculed by the great.

If Jesus gave special status in his day to persons who do not procreate, on what grounds do churches today treat modern eunuchs — single people, homosexuals, and childless couples — like outcasts?

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

Heady stuff for a pulp, you'll agree, bolstered by the fact that these Buffy the Vampire Slayers have a red cross tattooed across their face like a scarlet letter denoting their outcast - hero status.

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.

With Barker's status as one of the most prominent openly gay figures in genre fiction at the back of the mind, that Candyman is something of an elegiac lament for the outcasts and the sexually humiliated only augments its status as one of the best of the end - of - the - eighties / start - of - the - nineties body mortification films.

It centers around a surgery - obsessed teenage girl, Pauline, who struggles with her status of being an outcast while plotting to save her sister from the -LSB-...]

It centers around a surgery - obsessed teenage girl, Pauline, who struggles with her status of being an outcast while plotting to save her sister from the terrible effects of cystic fibrosis.

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.

There is no sadder sight than these outcast, forlorn, forgotten animals, relegated to the status of lawn ornaments and virtually ignored.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.