Mr. Barron, on the other hand, is the consummate outsider.

He was the consummate outsider.

She remains a consummate outsider and loner, unable to conceive of the idea of starting a family.

Once back in jail, the consummate outsider discovers he has an insider's temperament - inside prison, having become a media sensation, he discovers the quiddity of America's madness.

James Davis, once considered a perennial candidate, was the consummate political outsider, coming close to toppling the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman, Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr.

Now the consummate outsider is working on her inside game: D.C. politics.

The gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, have been described as consummate outsiders, derided by more popular students, and diary entries describe the rage brought on by rejection.

Ms. Peoples has defied expectations in earlier races by winning as the consummate outsider backed by a strong grass-roots group of supporters.

Mr. Rabner, by contrast, is consummate outsider, whose knowledge of New Jersey's unsavory political culture comes in large part from unraveling and prosecuting its many dastardly schemes.

It has been a striking transformation for a modest, consummate outsider still unaccustomed to winning.