I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider.

I last visited them when sympathetic outsiders still called them "captive nations."

Prison-oriented sites like this are increasingly common; almost always maintained by sympathetic outsiders or prison buffs, they can be serious, silly, rah-rah, grotesque and, of course, scary.

Like that earlier novel, "To Asmara" gives an account of a civil war by an outsider sympathetic to one side.

Vorse produced a regular Textile Strike Bulletin to keep strikers and sympathetic outsiders abreast of developments in the ongoing work stoppage.

For now, harshly satirical views of the haredi may still be too common, and novels and stories by sympathetic outsiders like Allegra Goodman too rare.

At an Adventist conference, Methodist scholar Donald Dayton described himself as a "sympathetic outsider".

In the story, the hotelkeeper is part of an Evelyn Waugh comedy, a sympathetic outsider baffled by an incompetent and laughable island bureaucracy.

Carefree or immoral rascality positions the picaresque hero as a sympathetic outsider, untouched by the false rules of society.

The sympathetic outsider can only watch, keeping in mind that a beginning is only a beginning.