The breaking of the engagement allowed Kierkegaard to devote himself monastically to his religious purpose, as well as to establish his outsider status (outside the norm of married bourgeois life).
"To be an artist is to sit outside the status quo, outside politics and a bureaucratic system and to take risks.
When he did say something, it was like E. F. Hutton, and he was usually outside the status quo.
Not so much shouting as insisting on the hurt that comes with being different — and how life outside the status quo amounts to an act of defiance.
He began to be understood in terms of what Milan Kundera called, in another meditation on the culture of small nations, "antimodern modernism" — a personal style that stands outside the status quo of perpetual progress.
Huck, the paradigm of the American boy, doesn't know what manhood is until he learns to trust and love a nigger, and the nigger in himself, the part of him that lies outside the status quo, that runs toward a dream of America, in love with a freedom just out of reach.
On top of being bookish, Taylor was far outside the status quo of his midwestern peers.
Or, to seek the ideal body type as assigned to us by media and fashion, to make sure we are exercising, staying "healthy" and not moving too far outside the status quo of pleasure, appetite, desire or expression.
Norway has a similar status outside the European Union.
However, he found his status, outside both government and the party, highly frustrating.
