Sentence examples for be a complete outsider from inspiring English sources

And then gradually, as you get drawn more and more into the machine," he says, draining his pint, "it's ridiculous to continue pretending to be a complete outsider".

She was fully aware of the fact that the very act of living in a country where she would be a complete outsider would bring her face to face with herself at a critical time in her literary development.

"It's ridiculous to continue pretending to be a complete outsider" – Charlie Brooker interviewed in the Observer Worth watching this week, if you haven't seen it already, is a comedy clip from Norway that's deservedly gone viral.

"I never wanted to belong to a certain school or club, but neither did I want to be a complete outsider," he said in a recent conversation in his hotel room here while on tour.

He was a complete outsider - very dangerous, of course.

Nirenberg was not one of Crick's gilded circle; in fact he was a complete outsider.

He is a complete outsider, with no central government experience at all.

"But for 30 years it's also been a complete outsider, so it also sounds new and fresh.

I'm a complete outsider and may have the basic facts of the situation wrong, but that's how I see it now.

I tried to conform but I was a complete outsider at school and I experienced the full spectrum of ostracism: people not wanting to sit next to me or walk home with me or eat lunch with me.

The 35-year-old author, who was a complete outsider when the shortlist was announced, beat the bookies' favourite, Sarah Waters, and the former Orange Prize winner Kate Grenville to win the award with The Inheritance of Loss, an ambitious novel of interwoven lives in the foothills of the Himalayas and among illegal immigrants in New York.