In the current get-rich-or get-out climate of the city, this kind of marginal life style is a throwback to New York's mythological bohemian past.
Faulkner was the novelist of the American South who demonstrated to novelists of the global South how to represent a marginal community in an advanced literary style, a style that could gain the respect of "Paris".
Politicians may be willing to criticize certain styles of state violence (especially when they were perpetrated by a previous administration), and even tinker with reforms at the margins, but marginal improvements still leave room for vast suffering.
The J.F.K. conspiracy theorists are the first and hardiest of those movements — the truthers and birthers and moon walkers being their stepchildren — in which the old American paranoid style, once largely marginal and murmuring, married pseudoscience and became articulate, academic, systematized, and loud.
A pretty good comedian with a droll style on a marginal cable show on a network that few folks had ever heard of.
This also helps correct for so-called survivorship bias by insuring that the disappearance of marginal artists and white-elephant styles does not skew the results.
Zealot, to be as kind as possible, trudges down some very well-worn paths; its contribution to studies of Christianity is marginal bordering on negligible; and its breathless style suggests hasty thought.
Somewhere in a marginal constituency's Aldi, Kenneth Clarke is doing Gangnam Style down the frozen foods aisle in a highly misguided attempt to court the youth vote.
More marginal, more "at risk," and more controversial life styles still feel less salient, and less politically appealing.
Somewhere in a marginal constituency's Aldi, Kenneth Clarke is doing the "Gangnam Style" dance down the frozen foods aisle in a highly misguided attempt to court the youth vote.
