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Free sign upThe phrase "and adrift in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being lost or aimless, often in a metaphorical sense, such as in life or emotions.
Example: "After the sudden loss of her job, she felt lost and adrift in a sea of uncertainty."
Alternatives: "and lost in a" or "and wandering in a".
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Implacable in black tie, he comes drifting through the picture, slightly puffy and adrift in a great blue void.
The director – now a handsome, hearty 43 – makes no bones about pining for the commune; of feeling bounced out of Eden and adrift in a constraining modern age.
Jacques Tati's fascinating, flawed late film Playtime, from 1967, has been re-released: Monsieur Hulot is back, bumbling and adrift in a Paris that, on the surface, is gleamingly antiseptic in its modernity.
It's the material that weighs Mr. Duchovny down as a New York novelist who feels alienated and adrift in a shallow, artificial Los Angeles — already a shopworn conceit when F. Scott Fitzgerald was living it in the 1930s.
Donal in the title story, and his three coevals, friends since childhood, feel at once secure in each other's companionship, and adrift in a world they no longer quite understand.
Pale, short-sighted and adrift in a sea of bright orange cleavages, Gracie has been passed over time and time again by almost every swaggering berk to ever set foot on the Take Me Out stage.
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Nina Foch stars in the title role, as an American woman alone and adrift in London, who is hired as a private secretary by an elderly dowager, Mrs. Hughes Dame May Whittyy).
Having left school at 16 and spent several years unemployed and adrift in south London, before landing a low-level job in the civil service, he promptly gave up that job to try his hand at writing.
He is Klee the modernist, overriding the paradox of depiction – how to represent three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface – by showing the world as if viewed from above and yet also within, as idiosyncratic incidents and structures adrift in a haze of pure colour.
Alternatively, maybe I'm just getting old and curmudgeonly, adrift in a world of divided attention spans and unable to survive my own embarrassment for others, or their bemusement with themselves.
They are the scattered and shattered, adrift in a land that has been flooded, polluted and left to die.
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