How To Use Outsider In A Sentence

This is a case of simmering rage and resentment at the stick from outsiders, which will come nicely to the boil at 8pm tonight. The Sun
The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
Hart's good - bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited.
Kids, who are circumstantial outsiders, tend to identify with such creatures and envision them as their vengeful protectors.
In some respects she seems destined to remain the eternal outsider. Times, Sunday Times

Manchester, " I replied quietly as 500 pairs of curious eyes swivelled round to a pasty-faced outsider. "Manchester!
Outsiders gradually brought influences like barbecue sauce and side dishes, but the core Texas values remain stubbornly intact at these old school joints: meat seasoned only with salt, pepper and smoke, and served without plates or utensils. You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Don’t mess with Texas
Many secret orders sprang up, and when outsiders made interrogations of supposed members, they were answered with a statement that the person knew nothing, which is why members were called Know-Nothings.
Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
We are outsiders but we can keep up the pressure and we might just nick it. Times, Sunday Times
Women are very happy to work extremely hard on a project when an outsider such as an expatriate advisor or consultant, takes responsibility but will not take the initiative to begin a process.
A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
The very same natural propensity to be communal and socially cohesive, makes us aggressive to outsiders. Times, Sunday Times
But despite all the uncertainty and bustle it seems, admittedly to an outsider, that the older generation is coping admirably.
As a nation of warrior nomads, they had either attacked or demanded protection money from any outsiders entering their kingdom.
Boehner said he feels a certain kinship with the outsider candidates, who remind him of himself 20 years ago. The rise, fall and rise of John Boehner
The focus here is on the ‘incredibly strange and outsider’ realm, meaning that some extraordinary obscurities have already been made available.
That's how it seemed to the mystified outsider.
Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP.
After a week when racing has come under scrutiny over trainers allegedly cheating, two rank outsiders made a mockery of the conspiracy theories yesterday.
He is both an insider and outsider, in filial and affiliated bonds with his home and his present, and he is connected to the various sectors of Vietnamese society and to the Westerners through a principled ethics.
A decision by the often clannish management of a small firm to let in outsiders can be monumental.
At any moment, he thought, he would be recognized as an outsider, an impious interloper with no business here. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
The winning horse was a rank outsider.
Last year he was a rank outsider for the title.
Usually, however, not wishing to go into the matter so thoroughly -- having come in contact with outsiders chiefly when they have been on holiday and least economical -- he considers a tip merely as the outflowing of a gen'leman's abundance. A Poor Man's House
He came from nowhere, this rank outsider, to beat a field of top-class athletes.
It would be fatal to bring in outsider.
Anyone one out there who thinks she is a maverick, who thinks she is an outsider to the corruptness of government, who thinks she would make a great president, either suffer from major stupidity, have a sexual obsession or just do not care about our country and only care about their party or movement winning at the expense of everyone else and at the expense of our country. Think Progress » Rep. Blackburn touts Social Security privatization.
Now I'm a newcomer, but isn't the mainstream media's sense of establishment one of the things that most irks outsiders?
Moreover, as a Jew living in a town that declared itself the buckle of the Bible Belt (Memphis boasted more churches than gas stations), I was always aware of my outsider status.
They were also outsiders in royal courts where courtiers did everything possible to sideline and ostracise them.
Upon scrutiny, the lyrics of their chants did suggest a certain "outsider" quality. AEI, AEI, Oh - Swampland - TIME.com
‘I felt like an outsider in my own organisation,’ he says, but has since rectified matters.
Still unexposed and one of the livelier outsiders. The Sun
Even after the arrival of the hi-tech buses and Volvo buses, the double-deckers are the pride of the KSRTC and the capital and the envy of outsiders.
The media establishment regards him as a brash outsider.
There is a lot of mutual respect between the two that they are outsiders fighting the political establishment. Times, Sunday Times
From the outset, Mrs Thatcher had the sense of being a political outsider.
He was walking around behaving as close to the Scott she actually knew as he ever let outsiders get.
An outsider's account of the machinations involved makes fascinating reading.
The situation is that of the outsider meeting the pleasures of a different, reputedly splendid civilization.
The vetting out of ‘outsiders’ was not the only kind gesture of these commanders of the Iranian stratocracy.
In some respects she seems destined to remain the eternal outsider. Times, Sunday Times
He will hit the road, and the talk-show circuit, to trumpet his outsiderhood and to taunt Dole and Clinton. Stewing On The Sidelines
The sonically lubricious Gillespie, meanwhile, played with Grinderman once, when Warren Ellis curated one instalment of All Tomorrow's Parties, the hallowed outsider-indie knees-up by the sea. Grinderman
Because Dad left the tribe to marry an outsider, however, he was considered a pariah.
However, the panel had overlooked one very -important thing: an outsider was trying to infiltrate the system. GYPSY MASALA
This sort of thing has every danger of deteriorating into a wider cultural rift between outsiders and others, which is quite anathema to a place like Bangalore that thrives on its cosmopolitan character.
The Rhinos are quoted at 11-10, Bradford are 5-2, St Helens 9-2 and Wigan at 6-1, while promoted Leigh are the 1,000-1 rank outsiders.
When they failed to qualify for USA 94, to us they were simply regressing to their natural state as rank outsiders.
We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding.
Mr. Steel, the first outsider to run Wachovia, also held an employee pep rally in the atrium of Wachovia's headquarters, an experience that left him "invigorated," he said. New Chief Plots Wachovia Overhaul
There is room on the list for some wonderful, stoned, noodly incoherence from Helvetia ( "this one-way street doesn't allow bicycles/Oh no") and some moving, outsider, off-kilter folk from Kath Bloom ( "I knew that I would ride with you/If I could"). Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results
Despite his outsider status and the opprobrium it generates, he won't give in.
The horse that won the race was a rank outsider.
The business class and the establishment are not totally closed to outsiders.
He could use a Hellenistic idea like the pleroma, but he was still an outsider.
Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
People who live on an island are bound to be wary of outsiders, since foreigners who come from overseas seem somehow more outlandish than someone simply trotting over a land boundary.
I'm an ex-serviceman and understand that the comments in that thread (and possibly others) are not "fantasies", "repressed desires" or anything else that they may appear to an outsider. Enough Said
Their already ambiguous moral roles freed female outsiders to express discontent with the status quo. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Filmmaker Azazel Jacobs knew he wanted to be an outsider the first time he saw John Travolta in the movie "Grease. Hiding Out in California
The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100-1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory.
Include the outsider illegal entry of examination of sound out, malice attack, and internal and legal customer of illegal more power behavior.
After the blood bath the person moved to the shower and was again anointed and cleansed from aroba, or the influences of the outsiders. Jay's Journal
We will make church a positive experience for outsiders. Christianity Today
But this sense of being on outsider is not peculiar to the Irish, but rather to the writer.
Margery seems defeminised, too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.
The majority are contemporary Spanish hits and may go over well with the hometown crowd - but to an outsider, they sound pretty lame and anaemic.
Daley's entry into the White House marks President Obama's transition from political outsider to insider, and from South Side Chicago liberal to Downtown Chicago and Washington survivalist powerbroker intent on winning another term as president, even if that means alienating the left wing of his party. Bill Daley Named White House Chief Of Staff
The only outsiders that came here was the occasional peddler and once a gleeman came through the village and stayed at the Inn his father owned.
Elites always detest gifted and nimble outsiders.
Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.
He has a deep attachment to home but is now an outsider. Times, Sunday Times
There were not a few who saw things blackly in this respectand flayed the planlessness and heedlessness of the Reich's policies, andwell recognized their inner weakness and hollowness but these were onlyoutsiders in political life; the official government authorities passedby the observations of a Houston Stewart Chamberlain with the same indifferenceas still occurs today. Mein Kampf
After a decade with this system, the company introduced a scheme for foreign exchange settlements for payments to outsiders. International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
That is, they are currently being produced to sell to outsiders, whether or not these are tourists in the literal sense.
Boyishly reared by an emancipated mother and a suicidal father, she is the victim of heredity, environment and her own anachronistic position as an outsider in the new socialist England.
I think the key to avoiding unhealthy levels of groupthink has to do with designing spaces that consistently exert pull upon outsiders (or social hackers or community straddlers), so as to keep the air fresh.
The majority are contemporary Spanish hits and may go over well with the hometown crowd - but to an outsider, they sound pretty lame and anaemic.
Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.
The museums of a place tell an outsider much about what the people of that place value culturally.
Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders.
She always wagered on an outsider.
Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
He shrouded their work in mystery, insisting that no outsider be told what they were up to.
Thus, whether one feels like an outsider or an insider, the story can be equally enchanting.
Many outsiders conclude from this teaching that the conception of the world as something unreal lies at the root of the so-called disinterestedness preached in India. Sadhana : the realisation of life
It means coming to a new country, always being the outsider, always having to adjust.Sentencedict
He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code.
To an outsider it may appear to be a glamorous job.
This aim might seem very obvious to an outsider, but within the Church fierce debates raged about reforming the traditional syllabus. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
In the case of "outsider" artists, such unconventional rendering is attributed to mental illness, lack of training, or marginalization in society.
Remote and entirely dedicated to his craft, he lived in a world peopled by a few intimate friends, a world sealed to outsiders.
He was an outsider in the race to be the new UN Secretary-General.
To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
His outsider image, to start with, is phony.
There is an undercurrent of anger among many vegans and animal activists and, regrettably, it has become one of the central characteristics by which outsiders define us as a group.
I'd like to invite you to lunch there so you can give an unbiased outsider's view.
Ameri says it is Gaddafi's regime that introduced the use of the term "tribalism", and did so to "crush the confidence of those in their own western Libya cities" as well as to "confuse outsiders into believing that the Gaddafi regime is all that's holding together a fractured and disunited people". The Guardian World News
As a nation of the disenfranchised, freaks, and outsiders, we can identify with the yearning to fit in somewhere.
Fever Night or Static Age aka Band of Satanic Outsiders is an acid-trip, psychotomimetic horror film about three Satanists who are faced with serious repercussions after going into the woods one night and worshipping the Devil. Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders (2009)
Looking inward, officers see the army not only as a highly-valued institution but also as a corporate or nearly free-standing entity whose internal coherence and unity they must protect from outsiders.
Outsiders have no right to demand it, and the church would be very foolish to try and provide it.
The latest edition of Raw Vision reports on the growing interest in a highly collectable strand of outsider art, the Victorian Spar Box.
One reason why England are ranked outsiders is because they have largely failed to join the fun. Times, Sunday Times
The name came from the two Davids' shared love of outsider art.
For one, they say, she is an outsider in an administration where cronyism has created problems.
A far better approach is to use an outsider as a collaborator.
Things often appear chaotic to the outsider.
As an outsider Joe Bloggs member, Liberal Youth appears to be run be people ‘playing’ politics whilst being totally hamstrung by execs, committees & antiquated decision making structures. What’s with da Yoof?
One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
But even by marriage Jhabvala was an outsider, since her husband was a Parse, a member of a generally well-educated and prosperous ethnic group whose position in Indian society is not dissimilar to that of the Jews in Europe. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
We are no longer watching a group of outsiders trying to play an eccentric form of sport. Times, Sunday Times
I chose to tell the story through the eyes of an impressionable outsider.
Then you put in very long hours and collect a nice salary, while employing your jargon to intimidate outsiders. The Guardian World News
He still retains all his enthusiasm and is a live outsider. The Sun
They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
But in the more important one, that of amassing points, they remain outsiders. Times, Sunday Times
The outsiders are very much on the inside. Times, Sunday Times
The story line is driven by the small-town reluctance to share anything with the outsider, a big city reporter who is rusticating in their minds. The Covenant-John Everson « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
To the outsider, the civilian, beat work was directed at controlling the street population.
All too frequently major issues that need decisions are farmed out to outsiders to make reports.
Yet even with the arrival in the city of outsiders such as Donatello, Raphael and Signorelli, Trecento mysticism lingered well into the 16th century in the strange, boneless figures, extravagant gestures and intense colours of Domenico Beccafumi. Archive 2007-10-01
I would always be an outsider here - no matter that I spoke fluent Spanish.
And he could no longer present himself as a political outsider.
It is precisely this "interspace" to which Jelinek gives a voice in her texts when she, from her outsider position in Austrian culture, writes about those things which are suppressed in her native land. Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life
Dewey himself campaigned with the portly dignity of an incumbent, while Truman screeched and kicked like an outsider.
Noguchi's difficult history fuels the romantic myth of the artist as outsider.
I always felt like an outsider around kids who did.
Work with outsiders to build safe havens? Christianity Today
By being funny, outsiders can gain access to and purchase on a social mainstream from which they might be excluded.
Mr. Amster says over 500 of the 9,000 courtyard houses they are called a riad when the central patio includes a garden, a dar if not have been restored and taken over by outsiders — either foreigners or Moroccans from outside the medina — to be used as vacation homes, boutique hotels or full-time residences. Finding Your Own Place in Fes
Unlike the Hollywood outsiders playing with six-shooters, Adakai could name all the sandstone spires, massive buttes, and whorled arches, bathed in reflected red: the Right Mitten and the Left, Gray Whiskers, Three Sisters, Bear and Rabbit, King on His Throne, arrayed in an ancient skyline that could have passed for Mars. Yellow Dirt
And when you're the king, you can banish the insiders who displease you and you can try to buy off the outsiders.
To an outsider, our raft would have appeared already to be on the verge of extinction.
I'm writing, in a sense, from a kind of agnostic outsider's academic perspective rather than from an inside perspective.
Most fieldwork is simply episodic, made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour.
Smith, a little-known outsider with limited political experience, came from behind to score a surprise victory.
The deployment last year of Iraqi troops, who were widely perceived locally as Shi'ite Arab outsiders, prompted the Sunni mayor of Tal Afar to tender his resignation in protest at what he described as a sectarian operation. Stephen Kaus: What Good News?
I get entertained by a talent who dangles outsider clichés without any idea what to say.
They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this month, he won a stay of the unsealing decision, which means no outsider will see the letter until the Delaware Supreme Court decides the appeal. Fight Over Hurd Letter Drags On
The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
Outsiders envy our nearness to the lake and the life's-a-holiday vibe, even as they see it as a distant outpost, some eastern outpost of the moon.
However, the panel had overlooked one very -important thing: an outsider was trying to infiltrate the system. GYPSY MASALA
To be sure, Dan Rather's half-hour broadcasts venture unawares into the realm of outsider art.
Being a librarian, as the commission found, is not as simple as outsiders might think.
An outsider might misconstrue the nature of the relationship.
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. Erma Bombeck
But Hayes, whose story was dramatized onscreen in 1961 as "The Outsider" with Tony Curtis, of all people, portraying the Pima Indian(sentence dictionary), can barely hold it together.
I then showed it to the best experts in handwriting attached to the office, and called on outsiders to test their skill; but what the writing meant, _if it was writing_, was a conundrum that we all gave up. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
When push comes to shove, however, most voters shy from outsider chic.
But outsiders might find his pronounced mannerisms and affectations odd, and thus they might reject him.
Using this art, the ruler's secret agents and informers used to pass messages to him without the knowledge of outsiders or members of the durbar.
Louisiana politics seems strange to outsiders, I know, but this bill will not be voted on.
While the CIC is figuring out its own future, outsiders are trying to figure out the CIC — and also SAFE, which will continue handling many of China’s assets. The $1.4 Trillion Question
The outsider sees to him is happy, can I know that he is drinking bitterness wine and intentionally wants to inebriate.
We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding.
Thus English people are apt to conceptualize themselves as individuals, while outsiders are seen as members of groups.
To outsiders that may look like treachery. Times, Sunday Times
It is unwise for an outsider to obtrude his opinions into a family quarrel.
He is a wonderfully understated character with the gentle knowing presence of an outsider who understands.
Therefore, it has nothing original or unique to say about cloning except in the most general way of being a fascinating portrait of outsiderhood. Never Let Me Go
You may even feel like an outsider - a foreigner in your own country.
It would be reassuring if a sample of these diocesan reports could actually be audited by outsiders, and a closer look taken in cases that seem to be statistically unlikely.
The outsider sees the best of the game.
Meanwhile, the doors to those wards remain locked to outsiders. Times, Sunday Times
Almost always used by outsiders rather than inhabitants of the communities so labeled, the term connoted both poverty and deviance.
This is just the Good Ole Boys of RNC wanting to get rid of an outsider that doesnt bow to them. davit Palin hails Steele as 'independent outsider'
The presence of so many outsiders has ruined the community spirit.
The grey is a 25-1 outsider, but not one who enters the fray without hope. Times, Sunday Times
Edwards tried to make a virtue of his inexperience by running as a Washington outsider.
The Cinderella Society is about an outsider who gets tapped to join a secret society of good populars dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take 5: Kay Cassidy, author of The Cinderella Society
As irritating as romanticising the past might be to outsiders, those bound up in it must start to consider its effects.
Cyclists have failed to address the problems; it now needs outsiders to help provide a basis for credibility and trust. Times, Sunday Times
One line of defense is likely to be that while these deals may sound fictitious and fraudulent to unsophisticated outsiders, they are actually standard transactions in high finance.
With the favorites falling like ninepins, the unlikely beneficiary has been Sean Gallagher, a reality TV show star and businessman who was considered a 40 to one outsider when the race started. Niall O'Dowd: The Irish Presidential Race Becomes a Gripping Soap Opera
We are no longer watching a group of outsiders trying to play an eccentric form of sport. Times, Sunday Times
She's "more or less" his own age and more or less a girl, who insists they can't be friends but seems to want to, and also seems to have her own unique burdens of outsiderhood to bear - most significantly, yes, that she's an eternal being who feasts on human blood. Colorado Springs Independent
One of the topsy-turvy things about Australia is the way people rush to identify themselves as an underdog or a battler, the way in which being an outsider, a misfit, is the conservative, establishment position.
He was particularly interested in disillusioned outsiders in conflict with society and the law (albeit motivated more by emotion than logic), and their ensuing violence and pain, both of which were conveyed in a deeply sensuous way through the powerful performances Penn consistently drew from his actors. Arthur Penn obituary
The emotion and joy are overwhelming for an outsider such as myself. Times, Sunday Times
The consummate aerospace industry outsider has finally cemented his place in the fraternity.
All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
For the record, I have absolutely no bosom friends in the club and am only an interested outsider who has become increasingly depressed about the state of our supposedly top racecourse.
In the play's opposition of civilization and barbarism, Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.
To lose Carroll for £35m and get a fat clapped-out lower-league Finn doesn't quite, as an outsider, seem to herald a new dawn of continental conquest. Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor
Returning to Edinburgh last year after nearly two decades living and working in London, I went through the usual phase of seeing my country in new light, as an outsider.
Trudi, a dwarf and an outsider, becomes the local gossip and observer of everything that occurs in her village.
Their view will be that of the outsider, the visitor, the tourist.
You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic? Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
But as an unknown to many of his would be constituents, he was branded a carpetbagger and a wealthy outsider.
After all, the First Amendment aims to protect the outsider, the dissenter, the protester: those without institutional protections.
Pleas of the crown should also be heard at these sessions, before bailiffs and coroners, except for cases of cutpurses and thieves caught redhanded or arrested upon complaint of a visiting outsider (as in the time of fair or market).

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