interloper

1 Church members in a small Southern town become increasingly unnerved by an “interloper” in their midst, “a person with no readily discernible gender, ethnicity, name, history.”

2 The interloper has a past with this particular bar, one that allows Mr. Varjas to unfurl and knot several narrative threads rather too neatly — as is also the case at times with the repartee.

3 When they lose, it becomes a disappointment, and the winner, whoever that is, looks like an interloper.

4 After the piece opened with a long set by a jazz ensemble, the Philharmonic awkwardly shuffled onstage in the wake of a section called “Destroyer”: interlopers invading an already vibrant culture.

5 To keep their intellectual property out of the hands of interlopers and evildoers, they may cloak it in coded texts, symbolic imagery and rituals.

6 Magic, to him, always felt like an interloper, an uninvited guest.

7 Whenever the calf moves, the cow instinctively places herself between it and the human interlopers.

8 European designers, Seventh Avenue and mass marketers have been criticized as cultural interlopers.

9 The rest, including Lance and Rich, are mere interlopers, stirring jealousy and resentment.

10 Buss was an interloper, wreaking havoc on the sanctity of basketball.

11 But about 27 minutes in, an interloper shows up: the highway.

12 As the child of a white father and a Black mother, she felt at first like an interloper, like “the other,” as she explained in a 2017 keynote address for the International Bluegrass Music Association.

13 Aline, it turns out, is a bit of an interloper in the “Luncheon” canvas.

14 The security did not prevent an interloper getting on to the stage at the opening ceremony and making a speech in support of the local farmers.

保安没有阻止一名闯入者登上开幕式的演讲台并发表支持当地农民的演讲。

15 It has often been said that Mr. Petit taught New Yorkers to love the twin monoliths that were initially viewed as bland, arrogant interlopers on a cherished skyline.

16 summer residents were regarded as interlopers who had no deep commitment to the town's welfare

17 She felt like an interloper in her own family.

她感到在自己家里像个外人。

18 He's a classic Pinter interloper, whose mere presence disrupts his host's bleak household and pathetic decline.

19 She bemoans the gentrification that’s changing her leafy neighborhood, the interlopers who seem intent on cutting down trees and installing newfangled businesses, like a shipping-container food court that, she says, “looks like a prison.”

20 I’d been thinking of Wells as the interloper, busting in on my Mom brunch with his tiny ears and his Daughtry love.

1 闯入者

intruder cuckoo in the nest plunger incomer stranger

2 不速之客

intruder turn up like a bad penny

3 妨碍者

preventer interrupter obstructor