Sentence examples for example of an outsider from inspiring English sources

For now, she's a tragic example of an outsider entering the media culture and not being slick enough to handle it.

The Falklands may be the supreme example; to an outsider, sending a British war fleet thousands of miles into the southern hemisphere seemed like a comic anachronism.

Portsmouth are the most glaring example of how an outsider might potentially ruin a club – their administrator is currently searching for their fifth owner of this season – and the Bundesliga recently reiterated the commitment to the rule following a challenge from Hannover 96.

Mr. Messier's smooth entree into New York is one of the clearest examples of how an outsider with financial resources, status and connections can penetrate the city's inner circle of culture and philanthropy, even as his corporate leadership comes under severe attack.

Sitwell is important: a modernist pioneer; a glorious example of the outsider life well led; a passionate champion of other writers (she was Wilfred Owen's first editor); a chastening example of the way literary fame can vanish almost overnight.

Chaplin seems a classic example of the outsider who comes to America, makes mighty contributions to his new country and delights the US public only to have it turn on him.

Take the scarecrow, a wonderful example of outsider art, and made with a real purpose.

Though he is the most visible example of Washington outsider ineptitude, Cruz is far from the worst.

And he took to heart the example of a do-it-yourself outsider, what he would now call an educational entrepreneur, addressing the failures of the public-school system.

The cabbie prayer strategies are a prime example of how outsiders trace new religious pathways in a city burbling with the world's faiths, sociologists of religion say.

Some commentators have presented the ivory burn as an example of an African country capitulating to pressure from "outsiders".