Sentence examples for outsider tradition from inspiring English sources

Here was a family business offering the top job for the first time to an outsider: tradition and innovation.

Gail Stavitsky, chief curator of the Montclair Art Museum, said his paintings fit "into the outsider tradition of untutored, naïve artists".

Today, nearing 70 and epitomizing the outsider tradition of the Off Off Broadway theater movement, Ms. Fornes is being celebrated by the Signature Theater Company with a seasonlong festival of her work.

Two of the most articulate of the film's many commentators include John Waters, who sees his own work in the same outsider tradition and who regards Burroughs "as almost a religious figure," and the gender-bending musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Investigating outsider traditions and his own obsessions, he meticulously re-creates the works of earlier artists: Emily Dickinson's back-of-envelope poems, the paintings of a former Alabama slave named Bill Traylor.

He self-consciously rooted himself in an outsider's tradition, of Jewish intellectualism, equally obsessed with language and image.

His own tributes to the outlaw, outsider film tradition — flamboyant in their scholarly care and in their bold originality — have suggested new ways of taking movies seriously.

She passes over most evangelicals' affirmation of the Bible's infallibility as if it were of no concern to outsiders, a tradition comparable to avoiding shellfish.

For some outsiders, the Peterses' tradition of gathering every summer is a fantasy of togetherness, mutual support and love.

As an outsider in a tradition-bound chaebol, or conglomerate, he can strike some elders as audacious.

They all believe, no matter how ridiculous it sounds to an outsider, and their traditions are what help them maintain the happiest country in the world status.