| This is a story about rootlessness, about impulsive, ostensibly whimsical wandering. |
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| He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains. |
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| Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important. |
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| The horror of rootlessness in post-war Europe was understandable, but it needs revaluation in a multicultural age of out-of-body electronic experiences. |
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| I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America. |
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| This rootlessness is the central theme of the artistic thinking of Maja Bajevic. |
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| Later that night, when she came home, she rummaged through her books in an effort to find an essay written by a polyglot that explains the kind of rootlessness that is hers. |
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| Thus, social isolation and rootlessness contributed to Kafka's lifelong personal unhappiness. |
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| His artistic motivation stagnated due to his feeling of rootlessness, writing, 'I am a foreigner wherever I am. |
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| She doesn't think of it as rootlessness, because moving has always involved being closer to friends or family. |
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| In a society where spiritual rootlessness is epidemic, it may be that some will be attracted to a church with deep spiritual roots. |
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| It is the loss of contact with our spiritual and cultural legacy, so Dawson warned, that accounts for our contemporary rootlessness. |
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| Augustave ultimately illustrates the devastating rootlessness of cultural disaffiliation. |
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| Alvin Toffler, for example, in his book Future Shock1 highlighted the problem of mass deracination in modern society and the serious destabilizing consequences of such rootlessness. |
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| Most of the poems in this book capture that feeling of rootlessness, be it in Afghanistan or somewhere else in the globe. |
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| Cameron will argue many young men have been drawn to extremism due to a rootlessness created by the weakening of a clear collective British cultural identity. |
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| It is the carefully wrought work of a poet in full sympathy with his subject and his subject matter, in all its rootlessness, melancholy and ironic brevity. |
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| While this might leave expatriates with a feeling of adventure, national deminers might face a feeling of rootlessness caused by never finding a home. |
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| Indeed, there would be cause to worry about a certain form of capitalism that imports workers and cuts them off from their families, with all the risks of rootlessness that could give rise to. |
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| Nevertheless, I would like to sound a warning note about educational rootlessness and Eurocentrism, which ignore national cultures and their presence outside the European area. |
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| Los Angeles Times Jhabvala often said that her gifts as a writer came from her chronic rootlessness. |
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