In the past two decades, Giacomo's descendants have gone from being local pariahs to a family whose genetic material is sought by scientists around the world.
Though he was never charged with a crime, he went, in the words of one local headline, "from pillar to pariah".
While Mr. Ozawa remains a potent political figure, the scandal has turned many in his party against him and made him into something of a pariah in the local news media.
She was being actively transformed from a well-liked local trans advocate to a national pariah in the realm of trans rights.
That Facebook post, shown on the local news after her arrest, made her a pariah.
I wanted to know what they made of the whole thing, because if you took Golding's word, the non-Muslims of this town had become pariahs, force-fed halal curries as local vicars were burnt at the stake.
But if a plan put forth by the medical center gains city approval, the Annenberg may be relieved of its pariah status, surpassed in height and maybe local resentment by a condo tower.
Mr. Duhalde admits that the local banking system cannot pay depositors and the country has become a pariah on international credit markets since defaulting on $141 billion in public debt in December.
As recently as two years ago, sending American arms to Sharif would have been unthinkable — he was a Western pariah, the titular head of the Islamic Courts Union, or I.C.U., an amalgam of local Islamic Sharia courts.
The locals went ballistic, lawsuits were filed, and the master of the house became a virtual pariah, according to Steven Gaines, who wrote about the saga in his book "Philistines at the Hedgerow".
