"If we had gotten a total outsider, he would not have been up to speed for maybe a year."
"Quintessential Americans will probably see him as a total outsider."
Edward is a total outsider.
For a hotel worker (an insider) or a person passing by with disinterest (a total outsider), the hotel would have a very different connotation.
The only conclusion he reached was that these people were total outsiders who had suddenly and dramatically entered the picture.
Things can be as confusing for someone from the next town as they are for the total outsider.
"A total outsider," Holtzman observed quietly.
In 1997 he said "I don't pretend to be anything but a total outsider in that neighborhood.
For all her youthful reverence, Sarah Hughes is not a total outsider, having won the national juniors last January.
The successor shall always be a person who is total outsider and not one belonging to the family of last spiritual head.