rootlessness

Example Sentences

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Leon builds the case for the searing profundity of “Topdog/Underdog” scene by scene, as Hawkins and Mateen expertly escalate the tension between Lincoln and Booth, a division widened by childhood rootlessness and adult disappointment.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

With a choice of refugee status abroad or rootlessness inside Ukraine, it is perhaps no surprise that some are risking everything to return to their homes.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

She responded to what lingered of his innocence; he was drawn to her rootlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2022

Say, to take only a slightly more extreme case, that you see the modern condition is one of detachment, rootlessness, and precarity.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

As someone who — from his earliest memories — felt like an outsider in every tiny burgh that dotted his landscape, this brand of rootlessness was all I’d ever known.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2019