Sentences with phrase «outsider status»

It's also been a key political asset, granting a measure of outsider status in the electoral sphere and making it hard for opponents to land attacks.

It assures him of proper outsider status, as a one - man assault on the establishment and on art.

The cryptocurrency graduated from outsider status to becoming part of mainstream conversation as its volatile price trajectory, scandals, and promise crafted an exciting growth story.

by Sarah Ward «In Boaz Yakin's Safe, Jason Statham plays his usual part, complete with outsider status, superior combat skills and the motivation of a substantial vendetta»

One has a long way to go before the proud outsider status of lesbians in art for Opie or Mary Ellen Mark, but she was another kind of outsider altogether.

Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.

(His perennial outsider status does not hurt either.)

The obvious candidate for outsider status in this year's last eight is Atlético Madrid, who were competing in the Europa League last season.

Shonibare's outsider status led him to gravitate toward the peculiar and fixate on others» desires to order their world using stereotypes.

Your journalist credibility can seriously be called into question if the only reporting that's negative is about Paladino while giving Cuomo a pass or tokenly saying that there might be some (perhaps) reasonable people who might say that his Albany outsider status is... questionable!

However, Mikkelsen (Valhalla Rising) again shows why he is a rising international star with a strong performance as a man whose outsider status allows him to bond with the queen, but whose progressive ideas cause friction within the political establishment and eventually lead to his erratic behavior.

Voiced in the American version by child actor Mackenzie Foy and the perpetually gruff Forest Whitaker («Lee Daniels» The Butler»), Celestine and Ernest form a friendship based on their mutual outsider status.

They have just moved to Denmark from London, adding outsider status to grief.

Loner Jesse Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke form a friendship due to their shared imagination and outsider status at school.

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.

Rhee's outsider status helped her enact reforms against these nonsensical circumstances and brave the repugnance of the Washington Teachers» Union, Washington Post columnists, and city council members.

(Ironically, it was this very outsider status that allowed him to make such piercing critiques of the American economy.)

Speaking of hope, one of the great developments of the past half - decade has been a broad effort among curators to look back into history and recuperate artists, often painters, who had been left out of the official narrative due to their race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or otherwise outsider status.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

Niwa's outsider status within these intimate encounters reveals a gap between the political position of the nation and the individual citizens» state of mind.

Gober's gesture reconciles Bess's outsider status while also celebrating it.

Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen brings together works by two American artists who bonded over their «insider - outsider status in the New York art scene» of the 1950s.

Raised back and forth between the UK and Nigeria, «Shonibare's outsider status led him to gravitate toward the peculiar and fixate on others» desires to order their world using stereotypes.

Not that it's easy sailing tackling this story in this locale, not least in the wake of 9/11 when newspapers are seen to have other, more immediate matters on their minds and the Globe itself has a new editor, Marty Baron (a coolly persuasive Liev Schreiber, pictured above), whose outsider status to the city under scrutiny is a mixed blessing.

Amid rising anti-incumbent rage, Rand keenly promoted his outsider status.

With his focus on Barrick's balance sheet, his outsider status in the mining industry and his reluctance to draw attention to himself, Thornton must identify with these leaders.

His outsider status may have raised eyebrows initially, but Dushnisky sees it as an advantage.

His outsider status is what enabled him to have a fresh perspective on how the field of biology was about to undergo a tectonic shift.

As a real estate mogul, Donald Trump enjoys a natural kinship with entrepreneurs, who repeatedly cite his resume as a businessman as the reason for their support, as well as his outsider status.

We will best understand what Carl Elliott is doing, I suspect, if we think of him as reclaiming the outsider status of early bioethicists.

People don't want me volunteering either, because of my outsider status.

A terrible start to the campaign under Ancelotti (including a chastening 3 - 0 defeat by Paris Saint - Germain), big money signings by the European superpowers and the imperious form of both Barcelona and Manchester City have relegated the German giants to «outsider status» in this competition.

But there are overlaps between contemporary anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - the roots in reality shorn of context, the conspiracy narratives, the radicalising echo chamber, the dissidents whose narratives you co-opt (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Maajid Nawaz), the outsider status of you against the world.

But in the 2016 presidential race, his outsider status has played well with the right - wing base furious with what he derides as the «mushy middle» GOP establishment unwilling to play hardball against US President Barack Obama.

These are times in which you revel in your outsider status, not your experience.

Where the party do gain a platform at the debates, they will be accompanied by the Green Party, UKIP, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru — parties which now occupy the outsider status which the Liberal Democrats once claimed.

Gubernatorial candidate David Stemerman, a Republican who has never held elective office, is launching a statewide ad campaign that emphasizes his outsider status.

He was practically ignored by the Democratic leadership as a result, but wore his outsider status as a badge of honor.

Truth is Mr. Eldridge is relying on people not paying attention and knowing as little about Mr. Eldridge is outsider status and his lack of qualifications so he can sneak into office.

Underscoring the outsider status Grimm is seeking to convey in his campaign, Caputo on Wednesday tweeted a photo of Grimm with former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon.

Michael Grimm's bid for Congress, solidifying the outsider status he's seeking in the race.

Lewis and Munoz are both expected to stress their outsider status and tap into a «throw the bums out» mood.

Council candidate Mel Gagarin said he hopes to use his outsider status as an advantage in his campaign.

With a toothy grin, the gregarious mother of a 4 - year - old child explains why she likes her outsider status: «You are less constrained by the rules.»

But others cautioned that her outsider status may still turn out to be an asset.

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.

This might sound a little beside the point with a murderer on the loose, but Beast is less concerned with the usual whodunit mechanics than the queasy climate of suspicion the murders have stirred up on the island, and the way in which Moll responds to it by crazily — yet also in a sense horribly understandably — doubling down on her outsider status.

They are fascinated by the trade, but are constantly reminded of their outsider status in an industry tailored to reward men.

Defying all the clichés of the flashback device, a wonderful montage establishes Nadine's long - held outsider status and the importance of her soul mate friend, Krista (Ava Grace Cooper as a tot; a terrific Haley Lu Richardson through the awkward years).

Not to answer for Guy, but I'd say both of those, their outsider status and non-traditional scores pretty much guarantees that they won't be nominated.