Sentences with phrase «social outcasts»

A recent study of three North Carolina schools found that most bullies are not the stereotypical social outcasts waiting in the back hallway to extort lunch money.

Social outcasts tend to reach out to other social outcasts who typically display the characteristics of social disobedience, criminal activity, and violence.

Back in the «50s and «60s, only bikers and social outcasts were the ones who had tattoos,» says Craig Libis, CEO and Managing Partner at Executive Recruiting Consultants, a national search firm based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Citing R. v. Généreux, 1992 CanLII 117 (SCC), the Court of Appeal found no basis to recognize being a member of the Canadian forces as an analogous basis for discrimination: «We are not in a period of massive demobilization, nor in a period when military personnel are treated as social outcasts.

This reinforces the division between «uninfected straights» and «contagious gays», and supports the perception of gays as «dangerous» or social outcasts.

In Küba (2004), Kutluğ Ataman interviews 40 residents in an Istanbul slum known for social outcasts and rebels.

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.

Your puppies aren't destined to be social outcasts or misfits if you take smart steps toward socialization.

e-Reader owners are a different breed, and tend not to be social outcasts if they rock a device from the same time period.

Even the UNHCR, which is mandated to protect them, views them as «social outcasts.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since then, Meg and her adopted brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) have become brilliant - but - misunderstood social outcasts bullied by students and exhorted by adults to accept their loss and move on.

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.

They arent considered social outcasts anymore.

We tend to be social outcasts, not necessarily well liked in the corporate world.

I feel a natural affinity with smokers — the social outcasts huddling in doorways on cold days, resolutely resisting thepressure to give up.

, 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!)

We were advised that our children would be uneducated social outcasts (i.e. homeless or still living at home at forty!)

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.

Why do single moms continually feel like unwanted social outcasts and «divorcees» questionable suitors?

Unexpectedly, the Social Outcasts appeared after the Cutting Edge Peep Show segment.

Meanwhile, the Social Outcasts continue to pick up unexpected wins (although a Curtis Axel win over R - Truth can't really be considered an «upset»).

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.

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.»

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I was an introvert, and I was too close to my own high school days when I had felt like a nerdy social outcast.

But, he's lucky he has those friends — if you're not drinking in high school, you can be a social outcast.

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

Suddenly, you're the social outcast at work or social outings because you didn't partake in the pizza party or the morning donuts.

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

Quench your thirst with stirred drinks, like the Social Outcast, highball cocktails, like the Bananagram, and shaken concoctions like the Rosewood.

Can be a social outcast.

Don't be a social outcast.

An aspiring model, Betsy Blake, has disappeared and a social outcast and loner is the prime suspect.

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr plays a prehistoric, social outcast who, along with other misfits, forms his own tribe and finds various comic adventures.

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!