| This is a story about rootlessness, about impulsive, ostensibly whimsical wandering. |
| The horror of rootlessness in post-war Europe was understandable, but it needs revaluation in a multicultural age of out-of-body electronic experiences. |
| Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important. |
| Thus, social isolation and rootlessness contributed to Kafka's lifelong personal unhappiness. |
| He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains. |
| His artistic motivation stagnated due to his feeling of rootlessness, writing, 'I am a foreigner wherever I am. |
