Sentence examples for marginalised characters from inspiring English sources

The background: Shauf belongs to that category of gentle, breathy-voiced cult singer-songwriters, mainly American, who specialise in wan, waspish tales of marginalised characters and their bittersweet love lives.

That book introduced the world to Frank Bascombe, a regular figure in Mr Ford's novels (and according to our critic "among the most fully realised and irritatingly lovable human characters in American fiction"), as well as other marginalised characters on the edge of the American Dream.

Rylance's astounding performance as Rooster, holding woodland court for other marginalised characters on the scrubby borders of contemporary society, won awards and rapturous reviews for Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, on its opening at the Royal Court, on Broadway and in the sellout West End transfer.

Poor upstairs neighbour Robyn, grieving the death and ungracious burial of her twin brother, was written as a vengeful kook, a surprisingly sour take on a marginalised character on a show that otherwise celebrated diversity.

Even if Ballen's essential subject is, in fact, himself and the darkest recess of his psyche, the problems of representation – voyeurism, vicariousness, objectification of the other – persist, not least because he is using the poor, the mentally ill, the marginalised as characters, or metaphors, in his ongoing artistic psychodrama.

Yet this marginalised, scorned character is also a romantic heroine, possessed of the most painful secret passion.

History is littered with examples of marginalised and overlooked characters, whether because of their gender, race, religion or any other classification.

By contrast, the main Arab character is marginalised and mysterious.

It can also help conceal criminal activity or frowned-upon behaviour, making it a cryptolect – a secretive language used to confuse and exclude others and affirm the character of a marginalised subculture.

Diverse casts with fully developed storylines surrounding characters of colour are crucial, but people from marginalised communities must also be behind the camera for real change to happen.

Like the Palestinians, the Sephardi Jews are part of Jaffa's lost, or marginalised, history.