Jamie's life was fleshed out to a point, as her slumming it with the rock'n'roll degenerates leaves her cut adrift by her family, her monstrous mother apparently paying her aunt to turf her out on to the streets.
In the past, misfortune set her adrift from her dreams.
The Tiger's wife was lost in her own world, adrift from her husband in mind and body, punishing him for twenty-four years of bitterness.
Yet just five years ago, she was emotionally adrift in her native Prague, earning her keep as a nude model.
The fact that she did not speak much also meant that I spoke a lot, about silly things, things that filled the silence so that I could try to keep her mind here with me, and not adrift in her illness.
Clarkson is New York literary critic Wendy Shields, deserted by her husband (Jake Weber) after a 21-year marriage, and now befuddled, pissed off and adrift in her suddenly empty world.
EAT PRAY LOVE Emotionally adrift after her divorce, a woman goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Adrift in her new life — tellingly, she's known as Girl or Darlin' or Button, but is rarely called by her given name — she finds some purpose in learning the art of rodeo.
But the Patty we encounter in her own memoir, and in the subsequent scenes focused on other characters, is weak and pathetic, a woman adrift in her own life to the point of not seeming fully developed as a character.
She has been the only steadfast companion he's ever known, a friend rather than a passion — their marriage was childless — and he is left emotionally adrift by her absence.
