Sentences with phrase «role as the outsider»

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.

The visual contrast emphasizes the astronauts» roles as outsiders who have a rare perspective on the blue marble.

Danny Glover, who is probably best known for being Mel Gibson's partner in the Lethal Weapon series, makes a fine, sympathetic Paul D. Glover's role as the outsider is to lead the audience into the strange, closed world that exists at 124 Bluestone Road, and it's a part that he fulfills admirably.

For one thing, they point to his role as the outsider awaiting each person's personal discovery.

Despite his considerable success, such as participating in documenta X and the Venice Biennale in 2009, he remains true to his role as an outsider in the art business — someone who does not conform to the customary way of doing things, but instead chooses his own path.

Not exact matches

As a tech outsider, Couture plays a key role in the R&D process, too.

I have always understood the Gospel as being Good News for everyone, and that our role as believers and members of the Church is to welcome strangers, newcomers, and outsiders.

Cichon emphasized his «outsider» role as a WBEN Radio newsman while attempting to paint Kearns as a «career politician.»

Outsiders, however, have frequently viewed these confines of the law as inherently debilitating and responsible for the large role federal prosecutors have taken in investigating New York politicians.

His decision to drop out thrust Ms. Malliotakis into the role of Republican front - runner after little more than two months of campaigning and offered an opening for outsider candidates like Roque De La Fuente, a San Diego developer who recently moved to New York City to run for mayor as a Republican.

On Monday night, Teachout continued to play up her role as an Albany outsider, hoping for what she called the «upset of the century.»

The equivalents of these candidates in the NY - 22 would be Claudia Tenney taking the role of Donald Trump (as being opposed by the political establishment, and viewed by many as a political outsider for this reason).

Always remember your primary role is as an objective outsider.

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.

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine - Nine) as Bedlam, Lewis Tan (Iron Fist) as Shatterstar, Bill Skarsgard (It) as Zeitgeist, Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) as Russell, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Eddie Marsan (Atomic Blonde) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

His role as a wise outsider, capable of prophesying the future, required a different type of performance — piercingly insightful in direct contrast with the checked - out aura of those playing villagers in the setting of an 18th century Bavarian village.

Fassbender's story is by far the more exciting as he tracks down the Nazi doctor who experimented on him 20 years ago to exploit his super powers, he's charismatic, very impressive in the fights, and fits easily into the cynical outsider role played by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the earlier movies.

Although the actor debuted in the 1981 movie Endless Love followed by The Outsiders, Risky Business and All the Right Moves, Cruise, who has gone on to become one of Hollywood's highest paid actors, cemented his status as an up and coming actor in this role as a naval pilot in the 1986 movie Top Gun.

But the award for best Othello goes to Chiwetel Ejiofor, who interpreted the role as a heartbroken racial outsider in Michael Grandage's 2007 production at the Donmar Warehouse.

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

The film that proves in a surprising number of ways the wellspring for Ron Shelton's similarly - dated Bull Durham from two years later (but don't hold that in its favour), it, like The Outsiders and Red Dawn, variously features a drive - in / moviehouse (this one playing Slumber Party Massacre), rumbles, and noble death's bed vigils — and, like those flicks, Patrick Swayze in a key role as the old guy crashing the party, serving as mentor / older brother / Oedipal goat.

When she introduces herself as such, she inspires curious pause from teachers at her Catholic high school, easy acceptance from her only friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein elevating the sidekick role to modest heights) but weird glances from outsiders.

The viewer may feel like an observer to this ritual and to the film's world as a whole, perhaps like CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman, «The World's End»), who takes on an outsider role in a reversal of typical Hollywood racial binaries.

Daniel Brühl («Inglourious Basterds»), as always, is great in the role but still little more than a plot device - as though the screenwriters thought it would be too dark for the good guys to fracture without a push from a manipulative outsider.

As Deadline reports, Smith is circling the role of «Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuro - pathologist who was a total outsider and made the first discovery of CTE, the concussion syndrome that has been fatal in contributing to the suicides of former superstars like Dave Duerson and Junior Seau.»

She has had recurring roles on various cable and network television shows, most recently the WGN series OUTSIDERS, as well as THE CARRIE DIARIES, RUBICON, and MERCY.

It may be his story but when she's suffering, it's hard for him to maintain his role as a sarcastic outsider who doesn't want to care.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

The lesson places a particular focus upon how quotations by and about Don John, in addition to his position as an «illegitimate» or outsider, help to clarify and develop his role as a villain.

Instead of treating these groups as outsiders with whom they have to deal, schools can treat them as insiders who have useful information and expertise, can take on key roles and responsibilities, and can help the school expand its network.

I hear a lot of discussion these days about paths to leadership roles for teachers; yet, I rarely see compensation offered when teachers take on these roles (which, by the way, often isolate them from their peers, as they become «outsiders»).

But she also struggled with her role as first lady, with feelings of being an outsider and with family tragedy: Only one of her four children survived her.

Gears of War 4 — Jump into campaign solo or co-op and take on the role of J.D. Fenix, son to Marcus Fenix and Anya Stroud, as you and your band of Outsiders confront the Coalition of Ordered Governments, battle the impending Swarm, and unravel the mystery of Marcus Fenix» last 25 years.

For the first time, players were invited to step outside of the royal family and take on the role of fan - favorite character Billie Lurk as she pulls off the ultimate assassination: killing the Outsider.

Embracing a role as both insider and outsider, Burton's photographs exist in a space between fantasy and reality defying any clear definition or category.

These works are made directly in response to the situations within which the artists are invited to work, whilst maintaining and acknowledging the artists» roles as ambivalent outsiders.

The title of the show Island Time is a reference to Robinson Crusoe and the hand - made objects that were critical to his survival on a desert island — a metaphor that draws connections between the state of being shipwrecked, to the role of the artist as an outsider, to the artist's personal biography living as an expatriate in a foreign city.

The inclusion of Jung's Red Book and the blackboards of Rudolf Steiner by Massimiliano Gioni in the 2013 «Venice Biennial» perhaps signaled a long overdue re-examination of the role of the unconscious in art making, «insider» versus «outsider» categories, and the artist as solitary visionary and explorer.

Law school does not prepare practitioners to practice, and lacks intellectual rigor (it's remarkable that a discipline founded on the interpretation of texts pays virtually no formal attention to hermeneutics and only outsiders like Stanley Fish, with his background as an English professor, ever write about «theory»; few law schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist society).

This bundle includes • Dishonored ® 2 • Dishonored ®: Death of the Outsider ™ • Dishonored ® Definitive Edition • The Imperial Assassins Pack Dishonored ® 2 Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored ® 2 — the follow up to Arkane Studio's first - person action blockbuster and winner of more than 100 «Game of the Year» awards, Dishonored ®.

To an outsider, my roles as a divorce mediator and as a feminist often appear mutually hostile and unbridgeable.

[jounal] Nickerson, A. B / 2008 / Attachment and empathy as predictors of roles as defenders or outsiders in bullying interactions / Journal of school Psychology 46 (6): 687 ~ 703

As that's happened, says Ferguson, both boards and CEOs have become more cognizant about the role of the board and what backgrounds fit best, and they're recruiting people who may be outsiders.