| Sometimes, though, outsiderness does imply some kind of deficit: many outsiders, for example, have spent time in psychiatric hospitals. |
| Still, there is yearning for some kind of character, a soul and body to go along with what the young writer is really examining, which also happens to be one of his great themes: outsiderness. |
| Passing cars repeatedly force him to squeeze to the edge of the road, as if emblematizing his outsiderness. |
| In 1966, my generation welcomed me into its alienated and skinny arms with a generosity born of outsiderness. |
| Historically, government policy on Aboriginal matters was an education in not belonging, in outsiderness. |
| These filmmakers adopted the mantle of disreputability and outsiderness on which the New Wave was based. |
