| 单词 | rootless |
| 例句 | Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Others were rootless, like us—just passing through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Now if we go back we will be weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to be back in the motel, back on the road, in my old rootless life of impermanence and safety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There she was, planted before me in the path, rising on thin legs out of the rootless devouring earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Touched with gold and red the autumn trees seemed to be sailing rootless in a shadowy sea. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A family without ritual and order was a rootless tribe subject to boredom and anarchy, lowered heads, pouting mouths, and sorrowing memories of friends left behind. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the easygoing surface Paul feels rootless and is drawn to Jules both physically and emotionally. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z The Baldwin brothers are all over the place, and those rootless Hollywood cosmopolitans the Kardashians are on their own planet. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z This is partly Black's way of doing penance for his days as a rootless, murderously angry drunk. "The Sunset Limited": How to turn Cormac McCarthy into bad TV 2011-02-10T15:55:00Z The rootless, itinerant life he describes to her is a lonely existence, and although they have chemistry, she resists jumping into his arms. Movie Review: ‘10 Years,’ a Comedy Directed by Jamie Linden 2012-09-13T22:55:13Z “Starlet” is informed by the New American Cinema but not slavishly imitative of it, particularly in respect to its seemingly rootless, aimless lead character and the ordinary beauty of her unglamorous world. Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z “The Banished Immortal” is a biography, but it is also a document in which a rootless writer nods to the past inside him. Ha Jin’s Self-Revealing Study of The Chinese Poet Li Bai 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z However tacky, modern and rootless, Japan is where she belongs. Translating a Book Caught Between Two Languages 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like Fellini, Truffaut loves the rootless intensity of loves and friendships on a film set. Day for Night ? review 2011-02-17T22:24:00Z He's in town to see a friend, but there's something rootless and sad about him, suggesting that he's after more than a visit. 'The Day He Arrives': In Seoul, with nowhere to go 2012-06-07T20:45:08Z When we decided that Denmark would be our permanent home, I was very rootless for many years. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The way Ai tells it, he exists in a perpetual state of flux; rootless to the core. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Mike, the rootless main character, spends a year climbing and ends it no wiser than before. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z That seems to what the spectre Earths do, hanging above the characters and their first-world problems – wedding-day alienation, worn-out souls in young bodies, rootless anxiety – in those two torpid movies. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z It seemed to be the evil fruit of a society in flux, rootless, Godless, unpatriotic. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z He still called his literature “proletarian,” only his version expressed a sense of terminal alienation, the collateral damage of his rootless, transpacific existence. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Recently, visiting family, I spent some time leafing through one of those ancestral histories that Americans in rootless moods feel compelled to write. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The fate of my great-grandparents haunted me, and I felt alone with my rootless mourning, separate again. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z But it was the young, rootless people living in Venice Beach who intrigued him the most. Blake Nelson and the runaways of Venice Beach 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Although there has been no shortage of Jewish characters in movies and TV over the years, they tend to be primarily sardonic, rootless cosmopolitans kvetching about social encounters while working on a novel. Soldiers, survivors and lovable rogues: the new wave of Jewish cinema 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z To quote Wilson, the humanities “are rootless in their explanations of causation.” Letters to the Editor 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Sullivan paints a moving picture of her warm relationship with Olga, who apparently never resented her rootless, restless childhood, and quotes in closing from a tender letter Alliluyeva left her daughter upon her death. What was it like to be 'Stalin's Daughter'? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “There is no truth but in transit,” said the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson in the mid-19th century, while Alexis de Tocqueville marvelled at the “feverish ardour” of the rootless American. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The bourgeois — a doctor, a merchant, a usurer — are his main target, their music rootless, full of inane little scales that crescendo to deafening, unconducted carnage that implodes into deserved nothingness. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z I think for Tony, that rootless ultimately disconnected him from the things he should be certain about, like the love of people around him.” Anthony Bourdain doc ‘an act of therapy’ for an acute loss 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z He has said before that he once invited his equally rootless friends to a house party that lasted for several months. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Her book is an attempt to understand what it means to be rooted and rootless. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Saudade focuses on the problems of identity and social discontent of several groups of rootless youths. Saudade – by Katsuya Tomita 2012-11-20T16:57:36Z His rootless, disorganised childhood may have been behind this retreat from film-making, he says. Moonlight becomes him: Barry Jenkins's journey from a Miami housing project to the Oscars 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being. The Chairs 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z In art books, modernism is usually presented as rootless, but much of what we now think of as new has its roots in Dessau and Weimar. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Tarantino’s anti-heroes were ideal models for upcoming mafiosi because they were drawn from the same timeless, rootless renegades. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Consciously or unconsciously, the title of her film seems to refer to Alison Lurie's 1965 novel The Nowhere City, the story of an academic family relocating to a soulless, rootless Los Angeles. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z 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. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It included an airplane pattern — part of Mr. Chalayan’s ongoing story of rootless travel — and ended with a carapace of a dress imploding into a shower of pollen. Special Report: Fashion: A Fresh Breeze of Change 2011-03-02T19:46:33Z Craving the stability more than the excitement of being rootless, of being nomadic. Steve Coogan Reaches the End of ‘The Trip’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Only Tsukuru remains relatively unencumbered, rootless, as if he were drifting across the surface of his life. Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z But the sense of a world in which everyone is terminally rootless comes across with haunting acuteness. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z She is different, though, not only because she is a woman but also because she is anything but a free, rootless figure of the wilderness. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z We see shots of a rootless Rory in New York and London. 10 Things We Learned From the First 'Gilmore Girls' Trailer 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The consequences place a target on her back that forces her to remain rootless to survive. Rian Johnson on the charisma of "Poker Face" star Natasha Lyonne in his throwback mystery series 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z His vagrancy, adrift in the chill ruins of a bleak industrial landscape, presents a rootless person without a known identity. Starring Cate Blanchett, 13 times over: Actress commands a stunning range of roles for 'Manifesto' 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The trauma has turned the Greek legend, he of the famed "12 Labors," into a rootless mercenary, exchanging his fighting skills for sacks of gold. Dwayne Johnson's 'Hercules' packs action-filled punch 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z My childhood before that was a bit unorthodox and rootless, but not unhappy. Why Mum packed Dad away inside a suitcase 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z According to a report by The Guardian, a news statement from the far-right party Alternative for Germany called Mr. Halbouni’s work an “abuse of artistic freedom” and attacked the artist as “a rootless wanderer.” A Monument to Syria’s Civil War Is Erected in Berlin 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “The Storyteller” is sparing in its account of Cobain’s last days and affecting in its depiction of the rootless aftermath. Review | Dave Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ is just as upbeat as you’d expect 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The presumption — then and now — is that pop is a rootless music attached only to the faddish present. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In this memoir, Jukes, rootless and itinerant, tries to settle down by keeping bees in her backyard in Oxford. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z 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. Cat Power Has a Lot to Be Proud Of. Now She Knows That. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Of course, in a novel, Eugenides has more time to detail and develop the contrasts between first and third worlds, between successful people and those who are rootless or flailing. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z "It was someone who feels so connected to their own land," said the Welsh-born Bale, a self-described rootless person who grew up in Europe and the United States. Decaying steel town gets movie star turn in 'Out of the Furnace' 2013-12-06T00:05:41Z 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. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z He is missing that crucial component that allows you to join words together to form sentences; instead they float, rootless, in mid-air, and are almost entirely linked to needs and demands – "drink", "swimming", "book". Autism: of mice, men and my little bro 2013-04-30T07:00:03Z Feeling rootless and and overwhelmed, both flee to a place of solace from their past: Lynskey's character to her parents' lavish suburban home; Radnor's to the leafy, idyllic campus of his Ohio alma mater. Something in the air? 2012-09-20T17:09:43Z When the doors closed with him inside, I filled with guilt for my inability to live a rootless life. I lost my dad in Nomadland 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z But these angry, rootless people are no good at following orders. ‘Halfway Bitches’ Review: A Play as Unruly as Life Itself 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard: The "lonely and rootless" main character Jenny makes new friends in war-torn Naples, "gradually revealing to her the changing face of love". Dame Muriel up for 'lost' Booker 2010-03-25T14:17:00Z He was an accuser, moreover, with a highly suspect background—jobless, rootless, with a history of drinking and addiction to pills. ‘A Very English Scandal’ Review: Sex, Intrigue and Bunnies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In this rootless, anxious age, that kind of solidity is aspirational. Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’ 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Now in their 20s, the three brothers, orphaned and all of them rootless and displaced in one way or another, return to their childhood home in Eastbourne. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z Early in 2015, rootless after a breakup, Arlan traveled briefly to Greece, then drifted to a Serbian monastery in the Balkans. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Her mother, Cecilia Medellin, the daughter of a rootless laborer, emigrated from Mexico. Alejandra Campoverdi is running for Congress. And facing down the threat of cancer. 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Directed by Michael Curtiz, this story of rootless refugees from the second world war, washed up in a city, which stamps its personality on every frame, feels both timely and timeless. The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z She seems archetypal, more symbol than person, and she’s rootless, with no other connections–not even a telephone–or people around her. How I Met My Mother: Don Draper's Oedipal Farewell Tour 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The tracks document the strain that a rootless lifestyle took on his relationships when, for the better part of 2012, he rambled across the country from Austin, Tex., to Brooklyn. | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z Heist is “feral” in the sense that he’s rootless, unpredictable and hairy. Take a Very Dark Trip Through the California Desert With ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z After a rootless, itinerant urban life, Jukes starts a new job in Oxford. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Nicol notes that the "rootless, transient" gumshoe became a quintessentially noir character, inspired by the 1920s pulp fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett and embodying the "desolate, uncertain world" of the 1940s and 50s. The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol – review 2013-07-26T17:15:00Z Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, the show will feature 22 artists whose work conveys “a sense of a rootless or unfixed existence,” as the museum describes it. The Week Ahead: June 27 ? July 3 2010-06-25T15:46:00Z Paul Trynka describes Station to Station as "the climax of David Bowie's love affair with Freud's 'magical substance', as well as his definitive statement on his rootless, confused existence in Los Angeles." Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z Despite his quest for community, he was a somewhat rootless intellectual. Conservative author Rod Dreher’s paradox: Compassion in St. Francisville and cruelty in America 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Of German and Nigerian extraction, he is rootless in New York. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-17T09:00:03Z The slow improvisations here are the stars: “Tokyo Part III,” which grows into a mild flurry of dissonance; “Tokyo Part IV,” with its Bill Evans-like, rootless chord voicings; and the super-slow, magisterial “Tokyo Part IX.” Masabumi Kikuchi, Playing Peacefully Through the Dissonance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Her saviour was the US poet Elizabeth Bishop, whose similarly rootless work she had fallen for deeply. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z “Lost Property” paints an unsparing portrait of a self-absorbed cad, “idle, rootless and mischievous.” Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 2010-06-26T01:00:00Z In the past they were places to escape from; in a rootless present they’re viewed with nostalgia. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z “The girl spoke of love,” insists a distraught young man driven to rootless wandering by the indifference of the woman he pines for. A Piano Rang Out Like Gunfire: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z In one interview clip, Mr. Burton spoke eloquently about James Joyce's writings about feeling rootless. ArtsBeat: Wales Honors Native Sons Richard Burton and Michael Sheen 2012-10-17T19:29:44Z The act of counting rooted a rootless people. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Has he finally given up the rootless, nomadic life, then? 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Traditional ways of life, including the traditions of Communism, seem to dissolve into a rootless, melancholy modern existence. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z For the adults involved, however, there is plenty to contend with behind the scenes: animal rights protesters, gruelling hours and the anomie that comes with a rootless existence. TV highlights 29/06/2012 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z But soon he’s racked with guilt, sensing some shared history with the rootless recruit. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z I returned to Oklahoma to attend college, but I forever felt rootless and disjointed. Perspective | Ask Amy: Overseas boyfriend pressures woman for quick marriage 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z He’s in town to see a friend, but there’s something rootless and sad about him, suggesting that he’s after more than a visit. Movie Review: ?The Day He Arrives? Directed by Hong Sang-soo 2012-04-19T22:47:36Z Some of those leftovers are linked to the last-minute installation of rootless trees, two volunteers told The Associated Press. Pan American Games start in disarray with cleaners still working around the National Stadium 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Dispossessed of his father and fatherland, a rootless Eastern European Jew on a continent gripped by nationalist fever, Roth’s self-identity was especially tenuous. Review | The rootless, brilliant and tragic life of Joseph Roth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Two rootless alienated people, withdrawn and isolated, opened the door to each other, said Aloha, Howdy, How you doing, and Good Evening. Bob Dylan on the Songs That Captivate and Define Us 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He has since cultivated an air of the rootless idealist. Crypto pulled off its big upgrade. Even larger ambitions await. 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z He and the genealogist, Colleen Fitzpatrick, president of Identifinders International, said that they began putting the puzzle together in February, thanks to recent advances in extracting DNA from rootless hair. DNA Researchers Name the Somerton Man, Australia’s 73-Year-Old Cold Case 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The case was broken open thanks to a single piece of evidence left over from the original investigation — a centimeter-long rootless hair. 40 Years Later, Nevada Man Is Charged With Murdering a 5-Year-Old Girl 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Many have quit school to drift around Warsaw, rootless, lost even, as young as 14 or 15, smoking cigarettes and swigging cheap beer. In Warsaw Park, Ukraine’s Teen Refugees Hang Out and Hang On 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z White supremacy is not some rootless, inexplicable force. Biden's missed opportunity in Buffalo: He needs to tell white people the truth 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z We were millennials pursuing the manifest destiny of our generation — chic, rootless wandering — who had become mired in a boomer-esque rush hour. I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z He was in his early 20s, somewhat rootless, and needed a job that would beat hustling on ride share apps in his mother’s station wagon. Opinion | How Life as a Trucker Devolved Into a Dystopian Nightmare 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z There were cases of homelessness and "rootless lives". Lost lives of Greenland's Inuit children uprooted by Denmark 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “If you think you have no history, it’s like being rootless,” she said. Black History Month founder showed how schools should teach about race 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Her largely parentless San Francisco childhood with a pack of other rootless kids fending for themselves is captured in flashbacks. Top 10 books about children fending for themselves | Una Mannion 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z It was in 2009 during her afternoons off as a domestic worker, she says, that she noticed Congolese, Burundian, and Zimbabwean children out on Johannesburg’s streets and in parks, unsupervised and rootless. Meet some of the millions of women who migrated recently, risking everything 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z If raw matter is all that is, ideals such as justice are ultimately rootless. Opinion | Prominent evangelicals are directing Trump’s sinking ship. That feeds doubts about religion. 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Suddenly, Rose is rootless, adrift, surprised to find herself an outsider in her own home state. Review: 'Yellow Rose' has a Texas-sized heart and a voice to match 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Lincoln’s “fiery trial” to preserve the union is reduced to Bannon’s dark apocalyptic mutterings against the forces conspiring against him and Trump: the “Deep State”, rootless cosmopolitans, globalists and liberal elites. How Donald Trump canceled the Republican party | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z "This new technique, previously thought to be impossible, enables DNA-based forensics from rootless hair and other difficult sources." Washington state murder victim, 17, ID'd after nearly 43 years, police say 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Later, she explored the lives of immigrants to the United States from both of those earlier homes, chronicling what she described as a “rootless generation” that wasn’t sure where it fully belonged. Battered by upheaval, novelist Yu Lihua told raw stories from a speckled blue desk 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z A rack of shelves under intense fluorescent bulbs holds hundreds of cube-shaped plastic containers with miniature, rootless chestnut trees. Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut? 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In a drought, a condition known as “rootless corn syndrome” may occur where the plants do not develop a nodal or “anchor” root system. Rainout shelters help Missouri farmers manage drought 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In the plant kingdom, the tiny, rootless aquatic bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba, captures insect prey in miniature traps using vacuum suction. Not all genes are necessary for survival — these species dropped extra genetic baggage 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The lawless and rootless and feckless and helpless are not good gambles for too-scarce, meticulously rationed organs. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Traditional forensic labs do work with old and rootless hair. Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A potentially more perilous aspect is its self-righteousness, its claim to moral superiority through an appeal to the wishes of the people, invariably pitted against a vaguely defined “rootless cosmopolitan” elite. Don’t learn the wrong lessons from Denmark on nationalism | Umut Özkırımlı 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But from summer through late fall, the carnivorous, rootless, wetland-loving plant is plentiful in this swampy body of water near the Catskill Mountains. This Carnivorous Plant Invaded New York. That May Be Its Only Hope. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Like intellectuals, feminists are accused of being 'pawns of the west' and 'rootless cosmopolitans' ‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: Elif Shafak on Turkey's war on free-speech 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z In the years that followed, he transitioned from rootless former musician to celebrated civic-leader-in-a-hurry. The El Paso Homecoming That Set Beto O’Rourke’s Star on the Rise 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Beto got dinged in the press for seeming rootless and self-indulgent. Are Beto and Amy O'Rourke the future of politics or the past? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z She misses her church, especially on Sundays, when she feels rootless. The Lutheran Pastor Calling for a Sexual Reformation 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z No intellect can be truly rootless; it always takes hold in the soil of influence and experience. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Like intellectuals, feminists are accused of being “pawns of the west” and “rootless cosmopolitans”. ‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: Elif Shafak on Turkey's war on free-speech 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But many Paradisians remain rootless: stuck in evacuation centers or scattered elsewhere. Last day in Paradise: the untold story of how a fire swallowed a town 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Handsome and underemployed, he was a little bit rootless and quite a big talker; some news reports called him a part-time actor. Susan Orlean loves the library - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z I only ask: Is it possible to believe, as a matter of principle, that rootless judicial activism is anti-democratic and dangerous? Opinion | We no longer want to just win. We want to destroy. 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z But the excitement is not only rooted in nostalgia and yearning, in intangible emotion and rootless hope: there is a sense of economic opportunity, too. Ronaldo Joins Juventus, and Everybody Wins 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The origins of genocide lie in permissive bias and discrimination, and the migrant hordes we now so fear are no different to the “refos” and “rootless cosmopolitans” we thought would never become proper Australians. The origins of genocide lie in permissive bias and discrimination | Alex Ryvchin 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z She trained as a social worker and says she liked to work with children who seemed as lost and rootless as she had felt herself. Parents who saved their only child by giving her away 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Forced from their communities into urban and industrial environments, modern men and women were left alienated and rootless, feeling powerless and purposeless in the new world. Neoliberalism is being rejected around the world: Can genuine progressives capitalize? 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Better for Fortress America to play its own games and proclaim its winners “world champions,” lest we end up with a fifth column of rootless cosmopolitans. Perspective | Soccer is the perfect cosmopolitan antidote to Donald Trump 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Think flat, rootless preseason tuneups, or international friendlies, where mindless waves sweep through indifferent crowds. The Players Are Retired. But Try Telling Them the Games Don’t Matter. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z I knew not to spend too much time getting to know my flatmates, for we were all rootless high-tech transients, our relationships temporary, our status revocable. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The rootless cosmopolitan is planning “to resettle at least one million immigrants annually” in the EU in general and Hungary in particular, Fidesz warns. In Hungary, the exploitation of a mythical enemy is poisoning politics | Nick Cohen 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Don’t let this ex-Hungarian, rootless cosmopolitan foist his “sinister vision” of society on us, they echoed. Here lies danger. Hungary is on the verge of full-blown autocracy | George Szirtes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Today, Smil straddles the line between scientist and intellectual, flashing the tastes of a "rootless bohemian cosmopolitan," as his old communist masters used to call him. Meet Vaclav Smil, the man who has quietly shaped how the world thinks about energy 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z There is a sense of seeking to tell Dublin’s sophisticated political set that another Ireland exists and that it won’t simply roll over to indulge the sanctimonious whims of a rootless city mob. Ireland divided as vote on abortion tests faith and the old order 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z An Uzbek who immigrated via a now-controversial diversity lottery program, he led a rootless life and, according to a former friend, had “monsters inside.” Republican Party, North Korea, Tax Reform: Your Weekend Briefing 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z But he warned new thinking is required to stop "a rootless generation" of tenants drifting from one short-term tenancy to another. Borrowing boost for social housing 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z When Nora Johnson was a child, her parents divorced and moved to opposite ends of America, plunging the future novelist into a rootless existence that would haunt her writing for decades to come. Nora Johnson, writer who created 'The World of Henry Orient,' dies at 84 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z MCOs look increasingly like the future, another way in which a sport once defined by geographic specificity becomes rootless as it is globalised. Disneyfication of clubs like Manchester City keeps showing benefits 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The song’s protagonist seems to have ambled straight out of the dustbowl, an everyman doomed by luckless love to roam, rootless and alone, in constant search of redemptive purpose. Hank Williams – 10 of the best 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Conditions are tough, and there are concerns that with huge numbers of young, unemployed, rootless men, such camps are fertile ground for extremism. Three tales of Mogadishu: violence, a booming economy … and now famine 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z For a rootless leader, in Oscar Wilde’s phrase, “passions are quotations.” We set a low bar for Trump. He still failed to meet it. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The most successful people nowadays are flexible and rootless; they can live anywhere and believe anything. Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z So, how is it that these rootless sea tangles are on their way to major cash-crop status? Superhero of the sea: “Seaweed Cheetos” could be the next key to fighting global warming 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Both offered a powerful sense of belonging to people feeling rootless in Thailand's increasingly urban and material society. The curious case of a hidden abbot and a besieged temple - BBC News 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Globalism is the rootless ideology of the fossil fuel age, and it will fade with it. The lie of the land: does environmentalism have a future in the age of Trump? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z 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. For Millionaire Immigrants, a Global Welcome Mat 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Enemies included clergy, intellectuals, monarchists, Trotskyists, “rootless cosmopolitans,” and well-to-do farmers. Donald Trump and the Enemies of the American People 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Like America’s president, Europe’s demagogues describe a world in which strong nations must rise up against rootless, self-dealing transnational elites. Trumpism is very familiar to Europeans 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It is rootless, it is cosmopolitan, and it is free thinking. Translation – and migration – is the lifeblood of culture | George Szirtes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It was only more recently, after the end of a serious relationship, that she began to consider the drawbacks of a rootless lifestyle. From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, he coined the term “liquid modernity” to describe a contemporary world in such flux that individuals are left rootless and bereft of any predictable frames of reference. Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist who wrote identity in the modern world, dies at 91 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z 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. London banks' Brexit battle heads to Europe 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z A critic of globalisation, he used the phrase "liquid modernity" to describe marginalised and rootless individuals. Renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman dies in Leeds - BBC News 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z But unlike hairs with a root, rootless hairs will not deliver a full DNA profile, in most cases. Cold cases: The detectives on the trail of undiscovered killers - BBC News 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Many people find it easy to aim their rage against an allegedly cosmopolitan and rootless cultural elite. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In a rootless world, they offer a sense of belonging. Inside Italy’s ultras: the dangerous fans who control the game | Tobias Jones 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The last ad of the Trump campaign attacked what Joseph Stalin used to call “rootless cosmopolitans” in a particularly insidious manner. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Pakistan recently stepped up their expulsions, forcing tens of thousands across the border into Afghanistan, where many find themselves rootless after so many years of exile. Sharbat Gulla, National Geographic’s iconic ‘Afghan Girl,’ deported by Pakistan 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z She was taking to task the rootless managers of British businesses who behaved "as though they have more in common with international elites than with the people down the road". 'Mrs May, we are all citizens of the world', says philosopher - BBC News 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Today we have a president whose high school yearbook attests to his high times and whose memoir describes his having done “blow” as a rootless young college graduate. Why we trust Donald Trump’s accusers but didn’t believe Bill Clinton’s 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Attacks on “rootless cosmopolitans” are the stuff of old forms of anti-Semitism. Even if Trump loses big, the anger will remain. Here’s how the left can address it. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z If low-wage fathers remain unessential, we will continue routing whole communities of women and children into poverty - and great masses of unmarried, unmotivated men into rootless, antisocial, violent criminality. Ban the Box? An Effort to Stop Discrimination May Actually Increase It 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The film stars Ellen Page as Tallulah, a rootless young woman living out of the back of a van and treasuring her independence. Orange Is The New Black's Sian Heder on her debut film, and why bad people make good characters 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Lost girls, aching women and rootless men all got a hand from Archer, though there were few happy endings. Why you should get reacquainted with mystery novelist Ross Macdonald 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z All of a sudden, universalism is out, dismissed as a lifeless political and cultural counterpart of “rootless” global capital. Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Artists offer a fusillade of ballad treacle that seems universal yet rootless, each nation vying for the distinction of creating this year’s preeminent Kelly Clarkson. If America did Eurovision | Jeb Lund 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Even Maguire's powerhouse vocals couldn't sell songs that felt empty and rootless. How Clare Maguire beat alcoholism to make the album of her career - BBC News 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The Progressives decried the threat posed to middle-class society by robber baron capitalists and ignorant, rootless immigrants. How the Great Society Reforms of the 1960s Were Different From the New Deal 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z One resident of the city noted: “It seemed the land was swelling with rootless people who came each year from below and Spain to this villa, the stopping point for all the poor.” Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into 'the first city of capitalism' 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z 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. Super Bowl Spotlight on Santa Clara Reveals How It Has Changed 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z With its weak party system, fondness for Hollywood glitz, and rootless, diverse residents, the state helped nurture a style of campaigning that emphasized appearance over substance. Fox News, liberal-baiting and the politics of populist fear: Here’s where it all began 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Very few Helado Negro songs kick in, explode, or charge forward, choosing instead to remain rootless in a placid and stubborn way. Don't call it Latino indie, but Helado Negro's music is part of a rising form 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Prof. Higuchi teaches participants to identify species of moss and to distinguish them from another rootless but unrelated growth, the lichen. In Japan, Moss Gathers New Fans 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z "These were the first of the rootless, the spiritual predecessors of decaying Europe's special jetsam whom rightist leaders would later organize." Carl Schorske, who wrote Pulitzer-winning classic 'Fin-de-Siecle Vienna,' dead at 100 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z All of James’ work has that rootless, detached quality. This week's most important songs: Justin Bieber, OMI, and more 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Still, he was rootless and in a post conference malaise. Chasing stardom in YouTube's crowded universe 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z He says he felt rootless after returning from Afghanistan in 2011, and itched to serve again in some way despite suffering some symptoms of PTSD. Meet the American Who Went to Iraq to Fight ISIS But Ended Up Taking on Iran 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The Bryological Society of Japan, dedicated to the study of moss and other bryophytes—small rootless and flowerless plants—says membership is growing. In Japan, Moss Gathers New Fans 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Suggestions to retreat go against the grain in Louisiana, where people are tied to their home in a visceral way that can seem peculiar to a more rootless nation. How to Save a Sinking Coast? Katrina Created a Laboratory 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Court papers and interviews with relatives and neighbors depict Mr. Boulware, 35, as a man struggling at times with mental illness, obsessed with mass shootings and living a kind of rootless life. Losing Custody of Son Appeared to Set Off Troubled Dallas Gunman, Family Says 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Far from serving as a model for cultural change in Greenland, the children ended up as a small, rootless and marginalised group on the periphery of their own society. The children taken from home for a social experiment - BBC News 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “I was rootless and would have described myself as an agnostic or atheist,” he told me now. Her Majesty’s Jihadists 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Patrice Fiset, the friend of Mary Campbell’s husband whose rootless existence inspired her parents, said he follows the Campbells’ blog and is similarly impressed. Retirement Plan: An Airbnb Travel Adventure 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z It isn’t quite true that nobody believes in anything and nobody trusts the experts, as in the rootless world of moral relativism feared by conservatives. Anti-vaxxers are not the enemy: Science, politics and the crisis of authority 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Liberal capitalism is a conspiracy against folk authenticity on behalf of the “internationalists,” the rootless cosmopolitans. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Today, soccer’s fan base is made up less and less of these local loyalties and more and more of rootless attachments to global brands. Real Madrid, Chelsea, and the Divine Right of Kings 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Technocratic, rootless, soulless; a professionalised morass of time-servers who see ministerial posts as springboards to nice little earners on corporate boards; manoeuvring constantly not on the basis of political principle but for shameless self-advancement. Two rootless, soulless parties have cleared the way for Ukip 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Flower is a brilliant cricket coach but also a phenomenally intense human being, one of those rootless citizens of the cricketing world who pilot the lycra-juggernaut of professional sport like a personalised global Winnebago. KP: The Autobiography – ‘more score settling than an autobiography’ 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Not the rootless, wandering men of yore, but the word itself: “hobo.” Where did the word ‘hobo’ come from? It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless. The top 10 … cities on film 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z But what emerged from the muddle and mess was a series of miraculously lucid novels: strange, slippery marvels of modernism, about alienated, rootless women adrift among the demi-monde of London and Paris. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Powerful convictions of any kind are highly seductive, especially in a bewildering and rootless age when consumption is the only absolute good, an age adrift between permanent skepticism and boutique belief. America: Stupidly stuck between religion and science 2014-04-12T16:30:00Z And the feather-light footprint of Hartwood — not much more than a wooden roof, some dried corncobs and an oven fashioned from earth and stone — means that the restaurant itself is rootless, too. Rewriting the Menu in Tulum, Mexico 2014-03-10T21:57:08Z Mr. Tibbs was rootless at the time, though not a drifter so much as a seeker. Delbert Tibbs, Who Left Death Row and Fought Against It, Dies at 74 2013-12-08T00:08:42Z It was a backdrop to intrigue and a centre for the rootless and displaced. Is brutality keeping out immigrants? 2013-09-04T16:27:49Z He furnished an interim haven for the rootless organization at the Center for New York City Law, of which he is the founding director. Building Blocks: A Goad to the Powerful, Lately Dormant, Is Stirred by a Midtown Zoning Plan 2013-08-29T03:07:31Z Thornton, 57, will play Lorne Malvo, described as a "a rootless, manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction." Coen Brothers bring Fargo to TV 2013-08-05T08:11:56Z While their identities are not known, it is likely that many are the rootless superrich: Russian metals barons, Latin American tycoons, Arab sheiks and Asian billionaires. Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market 2013-05-19T03:20:52Z All Jews in Djerba and those who left it are not rootless. Tunisia's last Jews at ease despite troubled past 2013-05-01T12:48:19Z The original plans were criticised by the Design Commission for Wales, set up by the Welsh government 10 years ago to champion good design, which described them as "disparate and bland" with "rootless architectural language". Tourist resort plans in pipeline 2012-11-18T11:18:57Z Mr. Obama was a rootless but ambitious Harvard law graduate, looking to make a political name. Valerie Jarrett Is the Other Power in the West Wing 2012-09-02T02:02:22Z It is this same rootless self that he regards as unable to resist the power of the market to redefine our deepest values. How Much is Enough? by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky; What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel – review 2012-06-15T10:00:01Z But it says that's only to be expected with people who are, by definition, rootless and unsettled. Turning around lives of the homeless 2012-06-11T07:19:38Z In addition to philanthropic giving, Mr. Martinos said it was important that the wealthier Greeks contribute by providing jobs for the country’s increasingly rootless youth, among whom employment is above 50 percent. As Greece Turns Leftward, Its Tycoons Stay in Background 2012-05-23T17:13:01Z Morgen, rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z Rising bare of leaves, it has but a seminatural aspect, as if it had been stuck rootless in the ground like the leafless, stemless blooms of a child's posy bed. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Declaring that her goodwill for him is sisterly, she thus continues: 'Rave not, rage not, wrath is fruitless, Fury cannot change my mind; I but deem the feeling rootless Which so whirls in passion's wind. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z Shall we put forth in boats to reap, And shall the waves for harvest yield 790 The rootless flames that nimbly leap Upon their ever-shifting field? The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z “There is no greater external threat to Kenya’s stability than the al Shabab, a loose gathering of radical extremists and rootless youth,” The Sunday Nation said. Somali Militants Vow to Attack Kenya 2011-10-17T15:32:37Z The choice is before every man—either to be rooted in Christ by faith, or to be rootless. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Younger Kurds, angry and rootless in the cities, are becoming more radical, he says. Threat to the state? 2011-06-08T23:39:26Z And so the dominant theme of O'Hara's career to date remains that sense of a rather rootless meander through the shifting sands of mid-range Premier League-dom. Jamie O'Hara is comfortable with domestic life among the Wolves 2011-02-11T18:00:13Z But the United States has always been a rootless place. The Peculiar Psyche of the American Assassin 2011-01-16T14:00:00Z Yet in my garret, I do not deal with rootless abstractions. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Like his organisation, he is global and rootless. Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z A franchise thought to be rootless — on its way to Newark for two years and beyond that Brooklyn — is not rudderless. Nets 118, Pistons 110: Second Straight Win Moves Nets Step Further From History 2010-03-27T04:30:00Z They find ways of splitting the difference, living rootlessly and yet making space for roots. Currents: The Struggle of the Global Placeless 2010-03-26T13:50:00Z They may be “rootless” masses brought upon the top of the later beds by thrustplanes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The plants of this species are very irregular in form, rootless, epiphytal, often stemless, and sometimes attached to the matrix by a very short stem. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous This grotesque forest was made more dense by festoons of writhing "snake-vines," weird rootless creepers which crawled like plant-serpents from one tree to another. The World with a Thousand Moons "Maybe," I told myself encouragingly, "the Place is Hell," but added, "Be your age, Greta—be a real rootless, ruleless, ruthless twenty-nine." The Big Time His patriotism was a rootless organism floating in a calm sea of sentiment. Command Within Walden's lifetime, others, cut off from their own race, lonely and rootless in the midst of the new. Homo Inferior He fell before a better general, and his rootless system died at once, leaving not a trace behind it. Rulers of India: Akbar There had been neighbors—quiet-spoken folk with something more real about them than most of today's rootless world knew. The Sensitive Man A beautiful woman without fixed principles, may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order There is no end to the quickening power of knowledge; but mere individual, rootless acts of benevolence are soon added up. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed Nitella flexis is almost a rootless plant, and will grow without any care. Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The plant is gregarious, nearly round, sessile, rootless, hairy, brown or brownish, splitting irregularly. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Why all this ceaseless sorrow, this footsore wandering, this rootless life, this eternal curse? Ghetto Comedies All culture, all art, without this, must be but rootless flowers, such as flaunt round a nation's decay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Sane morals is founded upon the basis of reason; when this foundation is lacking, the moral taught will be like a tree that is rootless and lifeless. The Legacy of Ignorantism It would be like putting rootless rods in a garden-bed, expecting them to grow into blossoming plants. Personal Friendships of Jesus They were neither taken from other gardens and stuck in rootless, as children do, much less were they of the nature of gumflowers, made with hands, wretched and dry and scentless. Spare Hours First he made a little hole for each of them in the soft brown mould, then put the rootless flowers in and pressed the earth round tightly. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) That was what his rootless life had brought him to: for lack of a personal stake in things his sensibility was at the mercy of such trifles.... The Triumph Of Night 1916 But Love he had dreaded most of all; Love which slays with one glance dreams and art and genius, and lays them dead as rootless weeds that rot in burning suns. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Pallas and Jove! defend me from being carried down the stream of time among a shoal of royalets, and the rootless weeds they are hatched on! Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection This rootless refinement was characteristically advanced in abstract things, of which a memory remains in the very name of algebra. A Short History of England In this sequel, Drew's struggle to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw, unsettled land reflects the courage of thousands of rootless men set adrift by the Civil War. Rebel Spurs And when you wake the next morning the flowers are dead, for there were no roots, but only rootless flowers. London Lectures of 1907 If man will never accept his own ultimate being, his final aloneness, and his last responsibility for life, then he must expect woman to dash from disaster to disaster, rootless and uncontrolled. Fantasia of the Unconscious Majestic trees flew hurtling through the air Like rootless reeds. Man of Uz, and Other Poems The other two remain rootless; yet they are linked with the first. The Time Traders He must remember that always—he was Drew Kirby, a Texan schooled with kinfolk in Kentucky, who served in the war under Forrest and was now drifting west, as were countless other rootless Confederate veterans. Rebel Spurs God, infinitesimally vast; God who is love, love which is God, The rootless, everflowering rod! The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry However, slander without a germ of truth is seldom injurious: it resembles a rootless plant and must soon wither away. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Few were the studies then pursued, but thoroughness required in all, Surface-work not being in vogue, nor rootless blossoms regarded. Man of Uz, and Other Poems She was of that vast army of rootless Europeanised Americans, who may almost be said to belong to a celibate order, so little does the question of matrimony and family life affect their existence. Franklin Kane Pride, rootless and fruitless, No longer takes and gives: But surer and purer The soul of England lives. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Many men remain imprisoned in the past; others are fragmentary, or appear to be suspended in mid-air, rootless. The Evolution of Love But take away his reason, his hope for some kind of betterment, however distant, and the strongest, most determined man becomes rootless and lethargic. The Mantooth They are like chaff—rootless, fruitless, lifeless, which the wind driveth away. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII In a creaking bow, a burning flame, a yawning wolf, a chattering crow, a grunting swine, a rootless tree, a waxing wave, a boiling kettle, 86. The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson He made acquaintances by the wayside easily enough, but only of the rootless variety, beginning without an introduction and ending without a farewell. The Street Called Straight She was a fair vision, this girl, withering away in emulation with the rootless birches around her. Invisible Links The one has his emblem in the chaff, rootless, with no hold, swept out of the threshing-floor by every gust of wind. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) He saw himself as a tree, dragged violently out of its native earth--rootless and rotten. Lady Connie Newly-imported plants, which on arrival are usually much shrivelled and rootless, should be potted in rather dry soil and small pots, and treated as recommended above. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Hitherto, solicitous only to do her duty unrelated to sentiment, she had not cared to win the child's rootless and unmeaning affection: now she longed to hear her say to Major Harrowby, "I love Leam." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 The news came to her lying and fading in emulation with the rootless birches. Invisible Links That high and noble wind is rootless nor From stable earth sucks nurture, but roams on Childless as fatherless, wild, unconfined, So that men say, "As homeless as the wind!" Poems New and Old It blossoms; and the children cry— ‘Watch when the mango-apples fall.’It lives: but rootless, fruitless, I— I breathe and dream;—and that is all. Andromeda and Other Poems Her parents too had been rootless, blown hither and thither on every wind of fashion, without any personal existence to shelter them from its shifting gusts. House of Mirth Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will rootlessly live on. A Pair of Blue Eyes But for it she would have felt as rootless as the whiffs of thistledown the wind blew past her. Summer I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. Villette Without that rootless, worthless, devilish fancy, I might have been no worse than other people! Salted with Fire They are here and then they are there; ever shifting themselves, they shift among the shifting: and like rootless sea-weed, are tossed to and fro. Redburn. His First Voyage They stick in their little bits of rootless flowers, and they water them; but, being rootless, the flowers are all withered to-morrow and flung over the hedge the day after. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The contrast is like that of Psalm i.—between the tree with strong roots and waving greenery, and the chaff, rootless, and therefore whirled out of the threshing-floor. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes As well might you look for good fruit and blossom on a rootless and sapless tree, as for charms that will endure in a feeble and relaxed nature. Villette I have seen whole byways covered thus with yellow dodder—rootless, leafless, parasitic—reaching up to the sunlight, quite cutting off and smothering the plants which gave it life. Adventures in Contentment The endeavour of all so-called "new religions" is rootless, because it is an attempt to adapt Christianity to modern human convenience. Essays on Russian Novelists But if we have the love of God in our hearts, we have not rootless flowers, but the seed which will spring up and bear fruit of holiness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah We can thus understand how it is that the three first-named genera are provided with such small roots, and that Aldrovanda is quite rootless; about the roots of the two other genera nothing is known. Insectivorous Plants That was what his rootless life had brought him to: for lack of a personal stake in things his sensibility was at the mercy of such trivial accidents. Short Stories for English Courses Some roots require slicing and removing fibrous rootless. Three Acres and Liberty The emotional, rather rootless life of the Russians appealed to her. Women in Love I am absolutely rootless in your house—I have been absolutely outside everything from the very first. The Lady from the Sea His absence, too, might have done much:—absence which smothers into decay a rootless fancy, but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. John Halifax, Gentleman How often have we ourselves heard these very words of challenge and reproof from the pliable frequenters of emotional meetings, and from the emotional members of an emotional but rootless ministry. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) The people grew not in themselves, but, blind, Accepted sight from him, to him resigned Their hopes of stature, rootless as at sea. Poems — Volume 2 Rave not, rage not, wrath is fruitless, Fury cannot change my mind; I but deem the feeling rootless Which so whirls in passion's wind. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell And at home a magic-lantern filled with the splendours of the New Jerusalem would carry multitudes of rootless hearts quite captive for a time. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) And thus it is that when anything happens to disturb or break up their earthly home their rootless religiosity goes with it. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) And any religion that most men have is of this outside, shallow, rootless description. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) Alone do we stand, each one, Till rootless as they we strew Those deeps of the corse-like stare At a foreign and stony sun. Poems — Volume 2 |
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