Language learners are social outsiders of a different kind, standing outside one community by virtue of belonging to another.

Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way.

His protagonists are invariably social outsiders whose "subversive" identity and sexuality pits them at odds with the received norms of their society.

Sharp functions as a picaroon by being a social outsider who is able to expose the manners of the upper gentry to ridicule.

This time, her activities are discovered by Lorraine, another social outsider in the high school with whom she can certainly relate.

"Both tell stories about social outsiders who dare to love."

However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence.

Most of the time, a non-conforming social outsider must face an atmosphere of intolerance, fanaticism or at least indifference in the society.

But evidently these social outsiders don't lend themselves to standard prime-time escapism and uplift.