Sentence examples for marginal men from inspiring English sources
"But they are all marginal men — wary until recently of being black, aspiring where possible to be white and subject to rejection and scorn on either hand".
Most marginal men: rival anchormen Huw Edwards and Tom Bradby were largely absentees, merely reading bulletins rather than being entrusted with chairing formal debates or doing set-piece interviews.
But seafarers, those marginal men neither living nor dead, also became central to the English national project, to dreams of colonization and the shaping of a new form of civilization.
The American Army, in contrast, was a poorly equipped start-up operation made up of "former indentured servants; recent Irish immigrants; unemployed artisans; blacksmiths, and carpenters" — "a motley crew of marginal men and misfits, most wearing hunting shirts instead of uniforms".
"Something funny happened when we played 'Tá Tranquilo' in Lisbon last month," Gustavo Gomes, one half of Brazilian DJ duo Marginal Men, tells THUMP.
To those who have already heard the singles "Let Me Go (feat. Nonku Phiri & Mr. Carmack)" and "Take Off (feat. Princess Nokia)," as well as the more recent "Louca (feat. MC Bin Laden & Marginal Men)" and "On Top (feat.
Either way, one of us is always the marginal man, living in our adopted home country.
Blood-ties remain elusive, but at the level of imagination Sinclair is a son of Clare: a walker, a watcher, a marginal man.
The scrapes in bars, the trouble with the law, the scuffling life of a marginal man lost in a big city while dreaming big dreams, that Rouch reveals in workaday Abidjan are the counterpart to the Paris of "Breathless".
The boy regarded as a pariah in Brahmin society because of his mixed parentage becomes an impoverished immigrant in London, subject to racial and class prejudice, a marginal man trying to emulate the bohemian ways of his new friends.
But knowing that the painter was a black freedman prompts one to speculate about the relationship between the solidly respectable sitter and the socially marginal man who immortalised him.
