| I've been a rootless nomad all my life, Sir. Now, I finally feel like I belong somewhere. |
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| The song opens lento and pianissimo, couched in rootless, muted parallel thirds. |
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| Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless. |
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| Plants exhibiting rootless corn symptoms have either lodged and are laying on the ground or are ready to lodge. |
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| The horse started off again, slowly and with clomping steps that churned up loose stones and rootless weeds. |
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| It is this sort of people and not rootless metropolitan babblers who value and indeed venerate the Queen. |
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| True, its residents were as rootless and as homeless as gypsies, only, unlike gypsies, they have stopped wandering. |
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| Well, I suppose the academic chaps would say I'm a product of the diaspora, rootless, not really at home anywhere. |
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| In a bunk house filled with other rootless job-seekers, Lennie's burden of simplemindedness leads him to commit a hideous crime. |
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| Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin. |
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| Characters are rootless, without orientation, almost unaware that their behaviour is morally dubious. |
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| Contrary to their claims, these writers are hardly courageous Jeremiahs crying out an unwelcome doctrine to rootless and anomic individuals. |
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| Yet maybe that eccentric, rootless Viking intrepidity would suit her hero more. |
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| Asymmetrical folds and axial planar quartz veins, isoclinal and rootless folds and boudinage of chert layers are common. |
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| I love big cities and the rootless cosmopolitan culture that comes with them. |
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| Training at the Guildhall in London, he became one of the rootless types he has ended up playing. |
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| There is a complexity and depth to these pictures that make most white Australian art look indecisive, rootless or stereotyped. |
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| Nicolas Berggruen comes remarkably close to Marx's caricature of a rootless capitalist. |
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| The man in the canoe seems utterly adrift, a rootless adventurer far from home, or perhaps an escaped prisoner. |
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| I think people from India feel rootless when they come here. |
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| Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in relative proportion to the amounts of nutrients available. |
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| Without them, we would become without history, without a journey, directionless, rootless, more of a crowd, less of a nation. |
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| The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage. |
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| Neither is rooted in Freudian psychology, though both were products of rootless lives, written after war and revolution had destroyed age-old certainties. |
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| A rootless man's shirt is the exact same material as his curtains and sofa. |
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| Some were indeed rootless men and women, like Lewis Nixon, John Fallon, Margaret Hamilton, and Martha Wright, never appearing in the census or town histories. |
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| Living rootless in a new city, the family tries to organise their new life and arduously starts from the scratch. |
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| Now after four years of a rootless, vulnerable existence, he longs to return home. |
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| Commercial development has eradicated some urban neighbourhoods and left others as dilapidated areas with transient, rootless populations. |
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| Freedom, unless it gets squandered in the name of fear or defiance, will endure long after this fragile, rootless hate campaign has burned itself to ashes. |
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| From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days. |
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| She is rootless and stateless, having little in the way of rights or protection from exploitation. |
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| Villagers will no longer have to waste days trekking to the nearest town to get to a bank. Brainy globetrotters are rarely rootless. |
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| Even though, in legal terms, we sit in this Parliament as the representatives of our respective peoples, they want to make us out to be the representatives of some mythical European people, in other words rootless. |
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| How can the fickle, rootless and irresponsible Bruno, a thief and a liar drifting in a world of unreality and fecklessness and totally addicted to all forms of instant gratification, become the father of this child? |
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| As a Religious Studies Major atYale in the early 70s, I was aware of the existence of many frauds and charlatans who used Eastern traditions to bilk rootless Westerners. |
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| It can help liberate them from the fear that the heavy hand of the past architectural forms and details can be abandoned only at the risk of being rootless. |
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| Gathered beneath the sparse shade of the tree, they create a rootless but deeply connected community, all bound by the fact that here, their voices will be heard. |
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| A metropolitan is intellectual, arrogant, rootless, possibly foreign, possibly sexually unorthodox, and certainly out of touch. If metropolitans did not exist, the opposition would have to invent them. |
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| It was the vehicle for a cycle of rootless creation myths. |
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| Such rootless people, desperate people, are easy prey to evil political manipulation, and that is why we see so much conflict and civil unrest in those countries. |
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| Having had successive applications rejected, they continue their rootless existence until, one day, they find themselves in the most dreadful state of health. |
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| You miss your family and feel rootless in Canada. |
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| In fact it is such recruitment within our societies, especially amongst rootless young people who are poorly integrated into our own societies, that represents the greatest terrorist threat. |
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| More and more people feel themselves left rootless by migration. |
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| But for this: be rootless. Which means, for example, don't be attached to your six senses, thinking that what you see, what you hear or what you think is the truth or is a lie. |
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| As a result, these traditional ways of forming groups are losing their nourishing, unifying power, leaving people adrift and rootless, or taking refuge in smaller, more exclusive groupings based on shared habits and tastes. |
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| The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. |
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| The danger is that it will leave musicians feeling restless or rootless, and detract from the naturalness of the orchestra, its greatest strength. |
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| Although it is commonly stated that hawthorns can be propagated by cutting, this is difficult to achieve with rootless stem pieces. |
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| With more than a thousand new jobs created in Prince George each year, people flocked to the city to find employment. Newcomers who felt rootless gained a sense of fulfillment by pitching in to help out in the community. |
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| Rootless and adrift in its wetland habitat, the humped bladderwort preys on water fleas and other small invertebrates. |
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