man without a country

As a result, the Bakersfield Republican has ended up the proverbial man without a country, or in his case, a sustaining constituency.

Embiid isn’t a man without a country, but rather a man who just hasn’t chosen a country yet.

“The Man Without a Country” ends with Nolan in his bed dying after more than five decades at sea, realizing the full measure of what he has lost.

While Griner was in the Russian prison, her plight resembled that of a fictional character Philip Nolan, the protagonist of an 1863 short story by Edward Everett Hale, “The Man Without a Country.”

For the next 55 years, Nolan is a man without a country, something akin to Griner’s situation before the prisoner swap saved her from a nine-year sentence in a tiny, miserable Russian cell.