Sentence examples for outsider quality from inspiring English sources

This outsider quality probably explains his determination to take on French tradition.

"There is a kind of outsider quality to his work and to him".

"But Obama turned that outsider quality into a kind of steely leadership," he said.

But an outsider quality lies at the heart of his strength as an actor: there is something about him that never quite fits.

Perhaps this outsider quality is what persuaded Public Enemy's Chuck D to appear on new song Flashlight Fight, a pots-and-pans homage to the rap group's barrelling urgency.

Melding together fragments of electro and deep techno, the London-based artist's music is imbued with a distinct outsider quality, putting an emphasis on the sense of detachment from the African roots at the core of the NON collective.

But one thing that he seems to have in common with Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks, say, is a certain childhood-outsider quality; you mention his parents' divorce.

I Don't Warna Grow Up has an urban, modern-day-Mark-Twain-meets-The-Outsiders quality.

Kalman's work, however, does have an outsider art quality -- quirky, unique, absurd and highly imaginative.

Stylistically, the paintings have a zany, Outsider-like quality, though Ms. Scher is in fact a successful graphic designer whose résumé includes record album covers, a stint as art director for Time Inc. and logos for corporations and nonprofit groups.

But Mulligan excellently conveys Kyra's lingering love for a man to whom she was once emotionally close, and she is especially good in the opening and closing scenes with Tom's son, nicely played by Matthew Beard, with whose outsider-like quality she feels a palpable affinity.