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"rootless" Definitions
  1. having nowhere that you really think of as home, or as the place where you belong

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Traditional forensic labs do work with old and rootless hair.
When the landscape is violently uprooted, our memories become rootless, too.
To some extent, economic and employment trends have made us rootless.
In this rootless, anxious age, that kind of solidity is aspirational.
But these angry, rootless people are no good at following orders.
Far from becoming rootless, we seem to be putting down deeper roots.
Heist is "feral" in the sense that he's rootless, unpredictable and hairy.
At times, these caricatures can be unhelpful, pitting thoughtless patriots against rootless cosmopolitans.
The election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France delighted rootless cosmopolitans everywhere.
Getting sufficient DNA out of a rootless hair has long been considered impossible.
A decision taken over 21998 years ago has left many in Latvia feeling rootless.
When he defines the cooking as rootless, Mr. Kahn is on more solid footing.
Rootless, looking to bloom and so earn the admiration of her former adviser Prof.
Far from being a nation of rootless wanderers, we are, as a nation, settling down.
The usual New York, San Francisco, bouncing, you know, little rootless cosmopolitan elite, blue stater.
Think flat, rootless preseason tuneups, or international friendlies, where mindless waves sweep through indifferent crowds.
Sal is uncouth and an alcoholic, rootless and resigned to it, but nonetheless up for anything.
I still feel rootless and restless, stir crazy and uncomfortable with people knowing me for too long.
Is a thick community and the happiness it brings out of reach for rootless cosmopolitans like us?
But the sense of a world in which everyone is terminally rootless comes across with haunting acuteness.
A rootless ivy with abstract berries and flowers climbs the front of the image in starts and stops.
Activists railed against bankers, migrants and rootless experts; one of their slogans was "We want our country back".
Faceless and rootless, they stand accused of unleashing "carnage" on ordinary Americans by shipping jobs and factories abroad.
Beyond the Gilmore matriarch's casual wear, Rory is alternately enjoying and getting stressed out by her "rootless" existence.
Traditional ways of life, including the traditions of Communism, seem to dissolve into a rootless, melancholy modern existence.
In the years that followed, he transitioned from rootless former musician to celebrated civic-leader-in-a-hurry.
She contrasts her own patriotic platform ("Choose France") with the rootless cosmopolitanism of her opponent, a former Rothschild banker.
It's trying to serve both functions, and fills the park doing it, but the thrills can sometimes feel rootless.
While globalisation has enabled companies to become more rootless and ruthless, cross-border capitalism behaved badly from the beginning.
In this untidy but often poignant drama, Carla Ching brings together the young and the rootless in Southern California.
From Biden to Beto: With help from his family, Beto O'Rourke transitioned from rootless former musician to presidential candidate.
This ominous tone, with its rejection of rootless outsiders, is easily picked up by those sensitized to its message.
Workers everywhere resent the rootless cosmopolitanism of liberals and are more comfortable with their local community, identity and majoritarian values.
In a globalized, rootless game, he is a product of where he is from, of the places he has been.
Like America's president, Europe's demagogues describe a world in which strong nations must rise up against rootless, self-dealing transnational elites.
Ms Le Pen frames her politics as a campaign for "the forgotten" against the rootless capitalist elite, and to recover sovereignty.
Mr. Saipov, who came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, led a rootless life that eventually turned to radical Islam.
Early in 2015, rootless after a breakup, Arlan traveled briefly to Greece, then drifted to a Serbian monastery in the Balkans.
Children of suburbia often feel rootless and Parr is fascinated by the way food is tied in with national and regional identity.
Many migrants from rural areas working in cities feel rootless and marginalised, denied access to facilities such as health care and education.
Without "Steve" (as characters hilariously keep calling their holy prophet, who dies very early in season two), Meyerism is rootless and centerless.
The character is more rootless or footloose, hence easier for young indie-rockers to relate to—easier to write songs for, too.
She may also have associated it with Maxine's gossip about some of the less edifying episodes linked to the Churchills' rootless son.
But, with nothing to replace them, we are left rootless—casting about for a new set of institutions on which we can rely.
But, as with all new moons, things are so new that you might feel a little rootless, unsure of what will come next.
The film stars Ellen Page as Tallulah, a rootless young woman living out of the back of a van and treasuring her independence.
Recently, visiting family, I spent some time leafing through one of those ancestral histories that Americans in rootless moods feel compelled to write.
The Long Run With help from his family, Mr. O'Rourke transitioned from rootless former musician to start-up founder, civic leader and candidate.
She calls him a "globalist", a rootless citizen, the candidate of banks and finance and "the system", supported by the beau monde of Paris.
It's a stumbling, shambling affair, a rootless, pathetic, and ultimately impotent examination of the joys and horrors of hedonism as a way of life.
The city is famously full of diversions for rootless Westerners; any neurosis or perversion might be catered to in the warrens between its skyscrapers.
Both of our marriages had recently ended, and in our 40s, we were suddenly rootless, dislocated in a way neither of us had expected.
Growing up in Santa Clara in the 1970s, when it was still populated by orchards, I felt at once fixed to the earth and rootless.
With his long, fair hair and physical restlessness, Mr. Vogt makes a baffled Parsifal, the young, rootless man who seems to chance upon the community.
This is good news for the public, but ensures that Kafka will remain rootless: his and Brod's manuscripts will be scattered between Germany, Britain and Israel.
In this great post-war carve-up, the Kurds were promised — but then denied — independence and condemned to a rootless existence in a very dangerous neighborhood.
Craft brewing's decade-long global surge has been partly fueled by contract, or "gypsy," brewers, rootless beer makers whose recipes are realized on other breweries' equipment.
One was modern economics, which, Mr Collier says, assumes individuals are selfish and rootless, and which argued for a freewheeling kind of globalisation because it is efficient.
Her disdain for "citizens of nowhere" is not just a political ploy: she seriously thinks that Britain needs more provincial certainties as an antidote to rootless cosmopolitanism.
"It's obvious; he suffered too much stress," Cattoi added, saying that trees generally can last for a month to a month and a half in rootless conditions.
The threadbare abstraction of these panels frustrates any attempt to read these works too biographically, but Al-Hadid's wall pieces, even at their most rootless, remain intricate.
But they all seem to thrive on a mobile lifestyle that works for those who prize their independence but may strike many of their peers as rootless.
In 11 spare tracks, Ms. Marshall seems confident, at last, in her identity as a rootless seeker and storyteller, firm in the instability of her atypical existence.
He has made several lurid, doomy films alleging that working families have been sold out by rootless, corrupt elites, who stood by and profited as immigrants flooded in.
Grossman still finds ways to spotlight the Holocaust—even though, as Ms Popoff notes, he completed the book as "Stalin's campaign against 'rootless cosmopolitans' was picking up steam".
The philosophical novelist and essayist Michel Tournier, who died in January, believed that nearly all human conflicts could be traced to the tensions between rootless and rooted peoples.
Rae-Venter learned of a new set of techniques that were pioneered by a UC Santa Cruz researcher named Richard Green, which would extract autosomal DNA from rootless hair.
Like Thanksgiving in America, Christmas is a rare time when the young and rootless sit down with the old and rooted, gorge on festive nosh and quarrel about politics.
Attaching a name (and a hashtag) to the phenomenon has also enabled people who would otherwise just be rootless wanderers to make their travels into a kind of product.
When she did, another rootless scandal arose: that she wasn't happy enough for her teammates because of a split-second shot of her on television where she wasn't smiling.
But Judis, like Goodhart, too easily caricatures Anywheres as unmoored citizens of the world (both writers eschew the phrase "rootless cosmopolitans," with its unhappy history, but that's the idea).
This willingness to compromise seems to reflect a broader sentiment in a society that has moved so quickly that people feel rootless and without deep ties to their country.
Latvia's "non-citizen" policy leaves thousands feeling stateless Latvia's "non-citizen" policy leaves thousands feeling stateless A decision taken over 2000 years ago has left many in Latvia feeling rootless.
It has been hard even for rootless cosmopolitans like me to focus on their woes while we have our local freak show, but things are going amazingly wrong over there.
Families frequently leave the camp in search of better shelter, perpetually rootless in a situation in which nobody can say what places are safe, or how long safety will last.
The story is set in an idyllic English country village just outside of Oxford, where Emilia Nightingale, rootless and purpose-free, has just inherited a bookshop from her beloved father.
Some, including leaders of Hungarian Jewish groups, called this an anti-Semitic dog whistle, playing on the old trope of the wandering, rootless, mendacious Jew, sowing discord with ill-gotten wealth.
Americans today have lower migration rates than boomers had, as annual data shows: But maybe, when the image of rootless millennials is conjured up, it doesn't refer to employment or geography.
She's particularly attentive to textures, like the rough, furrowed dark earth that becomes the grave for the protagonist in her masterpiece "Vagabond," about a young rootless woman wandering a cold country.
"I see poetry as an opportunity for immersion in a superficial time dominated by news and entertainment that makes us rootless and restless," Henrik said according to DR, a Danish broadcast network.
Still, Minnie's tenacious determination came through in the steely fervor of Ms. Sampson's performance, especially in her dealings with Dick Johnson, the rootless stranger who turns out to be the bandit Ramerrez.
It hit a low point during the Conservative party conference in October when May attacked a "rootless" international elite and officials privately suggested banks would get no special favors in the Brexit negotiations.
In this way, jihadism is more like an analgesic than a coherent doctrine, curing these young men of their internal agony, consoling their rootless existences, and paving the way to a heavenly utopia.
In the pilot episode, Earn, a rootless Princeton dropout who's been doing odd jobs, goes to his cousin Alfred Miles's house with a proposition—and is greeted with a gun in his face.
But this little program, ambitiously combining American Indian and environmental themes, was left almost rootless by the absence of one of its leaders, the composer and performer Judith Sainte Croix, because of illness.
"In particular, the charges claiming that Baosteel stole commercial secrets from U.S. Steel is rootless speculation and subjective assumption, and could even be described as an absurd statement," Baosteel said in an emailed statement.
Meanwhile, black rage too often gets written off as spontaneous, chaotic, unorganized, and rootless, as when we hear for the thousandth time that groups like Black Lives Matter have no real program or demands.
Rootless cosmopolitans, we were told to look to the past for significance, so we did — to the Sinatra Rat Pack ("Swingers," 1996), to Kennedy-era Madison Avenue ("Mad Men," created by Matthew Weiner, b.
" Mr. Halbouni told the newspaper, "I am rootless, in the sense that the war has taken my childhood away from me, by killing or scattering the friends of my youth all over the globe.
That something would eventually be the infant Republican Party, which, in 1854, was just beginning to coalesce from scattered opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, rootless ex-Whigs, disaffected Democrats and politically minded abolitionists.
"The American dream has been taken away from us," Jane complains; but the movie is less concerned with facile politics than with hopelessness, with a location that engulfs the rootless and erases the orphaned.
Ruskin worried that what we now call globalisation was creating a rootless society, prosperous but anomie-ridden, composed of interchangeable human atoms, "circulating here by tunnels under ground, and there by tubes in the air".
The interconnected values of "frictionless" dynamism, notional flattening of managerial hierarchies, and sociability that define contemporary professional work are mirrored in the spaces and gadgets that allow us to function in this rootless, diffuse way.
From the beginning, writer-director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) invites audiences to wonder why Star is so rootless, so simultaneously demanding and easygoing, so stubbornly entitled, yet willing to roll with the flow.
I was possessed of a rootless homesickness that translated quite neatly, for a religious eleven-year-old, into heaven-longing; later it would translate quite neatly, for a nervous thirty- one-year-old, into transsexuality.
The growing contrast between migrants who are poor and those who are wealthy reveals a less-noticed form of global inequality, as well as an acceleration of a new culture of the rootless, borderless rich.
Yet the town's gritty industrial vulnerability also makes it an awkward home turf for the candidate whom Marine Le Pen, his nationalist opponent, pillories as the champion of "savage globalisation", "arrogant finance" and the rootless elite.
The ingredients—sparkling wine, aged rum, Cointreau, lime juice, pineapple juice, and a dash of simple syrup—should be easy enough to come by, even if you do lead a rootless surfer-hippie existence on the sand.
He sees his country at war with modernity, one part aligned with the universalism of the Enlightenment, the other decrying the loss of nation and identity in rootless globalization — for which the stateless Jew becomes a symbol.
The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom (2015) The popular perception of Americans is that they are independent and rootless, but the reality is that people tend not to move very far from their parents.
It's full of (mostly) dudes with no sense of culture or community outside their homogenous gaming forums; these rootless young men long to be a part of something bigger, something greater and so, Kotaku in Action it is.
The whole swift, rootless, shystering, incestuous Broadway existence swallows your work now; hell, you were a kid from Frisco ten years ago, freezing in a four-dollar a week room, yet you had the world by the nuts.
American Honey follows a rootless teenager (newcomer Sasha Lane) on a road trip with a questionable sales force masterminded by a scruffy stranger (Shia LaBeouf), on an adventure that looks to have some tonal comparisons with Spring Breakers.
In the 1920s and '30s, veneration for the earthbound volk—and hatred for its opposite, the rootless, urban Jew—found their way into Nazi ideology, where they were infused with scientific racism and transformed into a rallying cry.
Calling "Erwartung" the "first Freudian opera," Mr. Botstein played excerpts to illustrate the work's restless, sometimes rootless harmonic language, the skittish interplay of contrapuntal lines, the composer's use of recurring motifs and the tormented emotional cast of the music.
Now, Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra has brought an awakening, exposing how flimsy and rootless these projected fantasies were and shifting our focus to deeper, more meaningful connections—no matter how long they may take to come to fruition.
Officials told the publication the tree was completely rootless due to the disproportionate costs it would require to transport it with the roots, though they mentioned this is common practice and would not necessarily point to the tree's withering appearance.
"Half-Blood Blues" burrows into their relationship: Sid's exhilaration when Hiero's playing brings out the best in his own, resentment when the younger man gets the lion's share of the praise, and, very occasionally, compassion for Hiero's lonely, rootless condition.
"Driving out of the woods I felt a new and curious calm but doubted it would last," the rootless narrator of Mr. Harrison's first novel, "Wolf" (1971), says as he returns reluctantly to civilization after a sojourn in the wild.
Sympathy follows Alice, a rootless college graduate who moves to New York from England and, in the absence of any real family, friends, love interests, or career goals, becomes obsessed with a Japanese writer named Mizuko Himura who teaches at Columbia.
With his Vietnam heroism and celebrity preceding him, the rootless son and grandson of admirals would eventually become as identified with this state as the political giants he succeeded, Representative John Rhodes in the House and Barry Goldwater in the Senate.
The term "globalism" has been used by self-described "nationalists" — like Trump — and by, say, anti-capitalist protestors, but the false idea of the "rootless" and "globalist" Jewish people who lack real ties to their home countries has a lengthy anti-Semitic history.
He read the Daily Worker as well as the "bourgeois press," and knew about the campaign that Stalin's henchman Andrei Zhdanov had launched in 1948 against "rootless cosmopolitans," Stalin's way of saying "Jews" when he wanted to shoot a few more of them.
If he appealing tenor Brandon Jovanovich lacked a little vocal heft as Siegmund, he sang with burnished sound and deep feeling, and conveyed the sadness of a rootless young person who does not even know he's a demigod, the son of Wotan.
"If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world with a population of more than 240 million," Mr. Leonard pointed out.
But her decision to mark her seventy-fifth birthday by getting a tattoo and buying the best pastries she can find leads to encounters with other rootless inhabitants—fellow-migrants struggling to adapt to a new home and native San Franciscans made newly homeless.
There, espousing a philosophy that was an idiosyncratic mix of Scientology, hippie anti-authoritarianism, Beatles lyrics, the Book of Revelation and the writings of Hitler, he began to draw into his orbit the rootless young adherents who would become known as the Manson family.
The rootless Roof, officially unaffiliated with any hate or extremist groups but a participant in their online activity, seems to have been driven to seemingly random violence at least in part by his absorption in conspiracy and online forums and chat rooms dedicated to hateful ideologies.
In a speech on the challenges on globalization, which have come to the boil in voting booths in the United States and Britain, Carney said many people in rich economies linked the lowering of barriers to trade and investment with low wages, insecure jobs, rootless companies and glaring inequality.
Sheila Merchant, COO, and Tatiana Koffman, CEO, of Marbl Media Sheila Merchant, COO, and Tatiana Koffman, CEO, of Marbl Media The new, rootless generation of untethered remote and mobile workers means greater freedom to both work and play — something that folks are increasingly taking advantage of, Koffman said.
The archetypal American is a displaced person — arrived from a rejected past, breaking into a glorious future, on the move, fearless himself, feared by others, a killer but cleansing the world of things that 'need killing,' loving but not bound down by love, rootless but carrying the Center in himself.
What's more, Mr. Mabey, skilled at entwining human and plant history, would tell the story of one of the heroes of his book, Margaret Mee, the 20th-century botanical artist who sailed up the Rio Negro in Brazil to sketch the annual one-night blooming of the moonflower, a rootless climbing cactus.
It's well known that it was customary for official Soviet rhetoric to voluntarily label various groups as Fascist or bourgeois, and that later it was used to conflate ethnic categories with social or political ones, as in the infamous cases of "traitor nations" or the campaign against "rootless cosmopolites" predominantly of Jewish origin.
What TPP would have done was: I was a weak TPP opponent: 1 and 4 seemed to me to be good things, 16303 seemed to be a bad thing, and 2 was a good thing for US intellectual property owners but a bad thing from my perspective as a rootless global cosmopolite.
Throughout the collection of white ethnocentrists, nationalists, populists and neo-Nazis that has taken root on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr. Putin is widely revered as a kind of white knight: a symbol of strength, racial purity and traditional Christian values in a world under threat from Islam, immigrants and rootless cosmopolitan elites.
Perhaps the most offensive thing about Logan (besides the fact that his fanfared debut implies these spunky, self-sufficient girls needed a boy in their lives) is that, like the other rootless dolls in American Girl's bland "contemporary" lines, he is marketed as interesting not because of his historical connections, but because he is available for purchase.
" She describes the miraculous ability of a cactus to sit, under a blazing desert sun, waiting years for rain: It sheds "its roots to prevent the parched soil from sucking all the water back out of it," then begins to contract, until its spines "form a dense and dangerous fur protecting what is now a hard, rootless ball of plant.
His rootless autobiographical heroes often dreamed of such calm places: a cottage on a hill, with a fire lit, approached at night through rain; a room furnished all in white, looking towards the sea; or in "The Mimic Men" the most alluring vision, an estate house on a Caribbean island among cocoa groves and giant immortelle trees, whose yellow and orange flowers floated down on the woods.
After all, this is a team that's owned by one billionaire from Florida and two others who not too long ago tried to move their basketball team from California to Seattle; whose marketing plan is to appeal to rootless hockey fans not from the local area; and who've just paid a price that makes sense more as an entrance fee to an exclusive club than an investment in a particular city.
He offers many examples in an essay called "Nomad and Sedentary" in his book "The Mirror of Ideas": the fratricide in Genesis involving the sedentary farmer Cain's murder of his nomadic brother Abel, a shepherd; the invention of barbed wire in America in the 1800s, which marked the sedentarization of pioneers and bloodshed over the rightful ownership of land; the conflicts between the nomadic Tuareg and the settled Saharan peoples; and the Nazis' demonization of the Jews, imagined as rootless and thus unrighteous transients.
For long stretches, neither the book nor the mansion plays host to anyone who isn't horrible, or at least very silly, so it's a testament to Lovell's charm and skill that, much like the Château de l'Horizon's chatelaine, she's able to show even the most judgmental reader a good time She's especially adept at conjuring the fizzy, rootless quality of life on the Riviera, where aristocrats, parvenus, courtesans and world leaders could freely mingle — "a sunny place for shady people," as Somerset Maugham put it.

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