Sentence examples for marginal place from inspiring English sources

This corner of northeast Derbyshire is a marginal place.

For decades the opera has claimed only a marginal place in the standard repertory.

Rightly or wrongly, this tragic end to a life of colorful nonconformity seemed to sum up the marginal place that organized, self-consciously proselytizing atheism still occupies in American society.

Their stories are hardly unique: hundreds of thousands of "indigenous soldiers" fought against the Axis under the French flag, but their experiences have had at best a marginal place in popular histories of the war.

It remains a marginal place in the city, and very much a place of immigrants, particularly the Russian and Jewish immigrants who have opened the small shops and flea markets that now dot Surf Avenue.

It is a tough, marginal place that is now inhabited by fewer than a hundred people and is accessible only by rough logging roads lined with fatal drop-offs.

Betting shops can seem marginal places today, even through the eyes of those who run them.

"We have to go to the marginal places where these other doctors do not want to go".

Like many divers on the west coast, they forage through the marginal places, looking for scallops in the nooks and crannies the dredging boats have not penetrated.

He had always preferred to exhibit his art in marginal places: in schools rather than in a museum like the Modern, which he considered "pretentious".

But there is, after all, a certain poetic sentiment animating Mr. Downes's art, which finds something miraculous and even beautiful in marginal places.