Sentences with phrase «takes on an outsider»

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.

The exhibition seeks out works that, exceptionally, dare to take on this outsider color, offering the audience a chance to see the variety of results when artists of very different persuasions tackle green.

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But what most outsiders don't understand (along with a lot of prospective hires on the other side of the conversation) is just how personally the entrepreneur takes the compensation negotiations.

Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.

One joke Querétanos share on Twitter is that the welcome signs that read Suertudo, vives en Querétaro («Lucky you live in Querétaro») should be taken down because they attract unwanted outsiders.

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.

What I liked best about her take on this timely topic, is that she is one of the few mainstream chefs to offer an «outsider's» perspective on the world of gluten - free.

Arsenal are preparing to take on the Group outsiders Ludogorets at the Emirates tomorrow night.

It was a different story — a seemingly insignificant viral infection that took hold quickly and doctors didn't pick up on until he suddenly went into cardiac arrest — but I know (only as an outsider, with only a fraction of the intensity of heroic bereaved parents like you and my brother and sister - in - law, Axel's wonderful parents) how devastatingly strong is the sense that we fail our babies if they die — that we could or should have known how to protect them.

I believe in a party that is built on unity and harmony; I believe that once the process of democracy is allowed to take its course, party members will have a sense of belonging; they can freely aspire for any position and once it is the decision of the party to see a party that is free of internal wrangling or a party that is free of interference by outsiders.

Even when we are on the inside, we are outsiders: taking the side of the outsider... are you with me?

He said Cuomo, who is running for governor, is using him as «easy fodder» to portray himself as «the outsider who took on the head of (last year's Senate) coup.»

Like John Nash, Bookstein is an outsider, an autodidact who dared to think «outside the box,» taking on problems that most experts considered unsolvable.

Male gorillas have a reputation for taking a hard line on male outsiders who wander into their clan's neighborhood.

Band of Outsiders, your take on casual - chic as done it again!

There is much good to be found in «The Outsiders,» which marks still another example of the Fox network's willingness to take chances on unconventional stories told in unconventional ways.

As the camera roves around the flat from room to room, implicitly taking on the perspective of one of the outsiders, we feel a sense of growing fear at what it might reveal as it turns every corner.

The world didn't need a remake of Footloose, the 1984 movie where outsider - rebel Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) takes on a town - wide ban against public dancing.

An outsider (Schrieber) takes the helm of the Globe and wonders why the paper hasn't spent more time on an allegation of priest pedophilia.

Her unique take on being a cultural insider and outsider never fails to raise the roof as she gives us her take on the news gripping the nation.

Taika Waititi on shaking up Thor and being a Hollywood outsider: «They take this stuff so seriously»

Ultimately, «Spotlight» turns on two key outsiders that take on the Church: editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), who shifted the paper's focus from international to local investigative coverage, and attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci), who represented the victims.

If this sounds exactly like The Untouchables, that's probably because it follows a very similar premise: A group of cops hell bent on taking down the reigning gangster overlord without any apparent help from outsiders.

BALL STREET STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV Studios / Showtime TEAM: David Caspe (w, ep, sr), Jordan Cahan (w, ep, sr), Seth Rogen (d, ep), Evan Goldberg (d, ep) LOGLINE: Set against the events of October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in U.S. history — it's the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue - blood, old - boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley's birthday party and the glass ceiling.

Focusing on students likely to be considered outsiders, or simply ignored by those around them, the genre has taken a leap outside of the mainstream in the wake of the unexpectedly successful Napoleon Dynamite.

The film centers around the world of high finance where four outsiders predict the credit and house bubble collapse of the mid-200's and decide to take on the banks for the greed they exhibited at the time.

Fueled by the continued discontent with government and corporate greed that was the hallmark of 1970s outsider cinema, they desired to have a different, «alternative» take on America's many hallowed traditions.

Pfeiffer, who has often struggled being funny in comedies over the years, actually does deliver a likeable, and quite amusing performance, ingratiating herself by taking on the less glamorous role of a woman whose looks are fading to the point where she often feels like an outsider looking into a world she is supposed to be front and center of.

It's not just Kate Mara as the phantom ingénue enigma Mary Jo, or Clarke's outsider take on Ted that makes this movie work.

The film follows a group of such entitled teens from party to party, focusing especially on the one outsider, a boy from the blue - collar class who has to rent a tux and pretend he likes to walk to avoid letting his new friends know he has to take the bus home.

The abuse has been going on for years, but it takes an outsider — the paper's new editor, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)-- to assign the crack Spotlight team, the journalists committed to pursuing long - term stories, to uncover enough evidence to drag the scandal out from the shadows.

An intellectually grizzled Liev Schreiber plays the new editor Marty Baron, who makes this case the paper's mission on his very first day — in fact he invests Baron with an enigmatic quiet that drives home the film's point about how it sometimes takes an outsider to be able to get inside a local story.

Serkis said his take on the Rudyard Kipling classic focuses on «the journey of Mowgli of being an outsider.

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»).

In addition, Bronson and Merryman point to a study conducted at Princeton University, which invited two groups of students from high schools under - represented on the prestigious campus to answer questions about their backgrounds (to remind them of their outsider status) and then take a short math test.

The arrival of outsiders shifts this familiar harmony for the indigenous population, and they struggle to retain their traditions and are eventually forced to (or end up realizing that they must) adapt, often taking on characteristics of the colonizers to survive.

Claire likes to read cross cultural fiction and non-fiction, works that take us out of our own cultural experience into another, or that give us an alternative perspective on how we appear to the outsider.

If all writers are by nature outsiders — standing on the periphery, taking in the action — the travel writer is an outsider times two.

For example, this article points out that Iceland's financial meltdown means big savings for outsiders (sorry Iceland, I know this is not exactly good news for you, but at least you can still take comfort in being the happiest people on Earth — see it's not all bad).

You're then told by another human you meet that you're not the only one to arrive on the planet by accident, and so she takes you to an entire village of these outsiders who call themselves «Strangers».

The first person perspective has remained, but now the action takes a back seat to clever tactical play and the ability to fight the campaign against the otherworldly Outsiders on your terms.

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.

Death of the Outsider lets you take on the role of Billie Lurke (voiced by the wonderful Rosario Dawson), one of Dunwall's most notorious killers.

The result is Winters's monograph The Grey Ghost: New York City Photographs, an artful, personal collection reflecting an outsider's take on an indifferent city.

Drawn from various sources — referencing actual geographies and histories alongside constructed and surreal imagery — the landscape for Todd takes on a certain unreality, there are references to the fantastic, the layered mark, the art of the outsider, the obsessive, the tiered, the mad and the random and their conjunctions with the present, becoming a world of open diversity and retrospective reflection — a kind of performed cosmos where the world forms us as we form the world.

Including the work of over 50 international artists in an exhibit which will occupy a space of over 3,000 square metres, the exhibition encourages us to take an outsiders perspective on our current reality.

For the 15 videos currently on view in «Diary of a Madman,» Cheng layers footage of both the mundane (city streets) and the mysterious (an abandoned asylum) taken around New York, piecing together a dreamlike vision of an outsider's experience.