The Samurai Shopper is a master in the civil arts of social encounters, a mannerly person and a lively guest, trading effortless bons mots with newcomers, outsiders, friends and frenemies.
It's virtually impossible for outsiders (friends or parents, for example) to understand exactly why two lovers connect.
The 33-year-old Italian won her first Grand Slam title by beating another outsider, her friend and compatriot Roberta Vinci, in the final.
Angry that a trust set up for their welfare and upkeep is partly controlled by someone they consider an outsider, his friend George Bizos, the family has gone to court to remove Mr. Bizos as a director.
For five years he was an outsider, finding friends only a few years before university.
Uncertain about the idea of showing alone, Ms. Brokaw asked a few outsider artist friends to join her.
Anyone with a degree of power in the market is continually keeping secrets -- from competitors, from the press, from anyone who is an outsider, including friends and family, but sometimes from colleagues and office mates.
When people in China accept outsiders as friends, it is customary for them to speak candidly about the many things that dissatisfy them--jobs, family, the government, the world--but most Chinese would show some reserve when criticizing Mao Zedong or Marxism.
Every political community is based on a constitutive distinction between insiders and outsiders or friends and enemies.
Even when talking about their jobs to outsiders, your friends in other professions can summarize their recent accomplishments in understandable ways.
