Sentence examples for periphery of things from inspiring English sources

Stokes clearly does not like to be on the periphery of things.

It brings its votary from the chill periphery of things to the radiant core.

In any social situation I'd much rather be on the periphery of things than at the centre.

"Growing up in Northern Ireland, we're used to being on the periphery of things, so it's weird and amazing that it's happening.

He added: "Before Tate Modern was built there was a sense that contemporary art was at the periphery of things, on the edge and even seen as not relevant to British life.

Pensive and intellectual, he hardly appears suited for the bare-knuckle world of politics and seems to exist on the periphery of things, ambling about the Capitol like an absent-minded professor making a study of its power-hungry inhabitants.

I've been on the periphery of a few things but I think I need a chairman with a bit of cojones to give me a chance.

Now, quite suddenly it seems, he has shifted from the periphery into the thick of things.

But then she was around, although mostly perhaps on the periphery of a lot of things that happened in the 60s, and she was to a degree infected by that spirit".

"There are individuals who are either members of or on the periphery of some of their things, their protests, that have expressed really unfortunate comments," he said.

As Husserl and others stressed, we are only vaguely aware of things in the margin or periphery of attention, and we are only implicitly aware of the wider horizon of things in the world around us.