Example sentences for: outsider

How can you use “outsider” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What's saved him from grimness is his status as an outsider, his flippant sense of humor, and his lovable grin.

  • But think of Darger in the context either of children's books and cartoons (anything from Tom & Jerry to the terrifyingly brutal but also extremely popular German children's book Strumpelpeter ) or of contemporary art (Maggie Robbins' 1989 "Barbie Fetish," for instance--a naked Barbie doll stuck all over with little nails), and it's MacGregor who begins to look like the outsider.

  • But while the notion of outsider art has proved an effective marketing concept, it is often an unfortunate interpretive one--outsider artists tend to attract a particularly crude and irritating kind of psycho-biographical analysis.

  • A warm profile of playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose new Broadway play opens this month, depicts her as an establishment figure who still thinks of herself as an outsider.

  • But Walcott also wants an outsider's view on this exalted material, and he finds it in the 19 th -century English peasant-poet John Clare, whom he makes into a stand-in for himself.


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