"And he's become deracinated from his background in the process".
On the other hand, I don't use my title and am deracinated from that life.
But the Sheffield dispute is not just about an atavistic affection for the forests of our imaginations: it is about a community deracinated from local decision-making processes by austerity.
His dark vision put Levin in conflict with the Broadway establishment, including Lillian Hellman and Garson Kanin, who wanted to cast Frank's tale as an upbeat story deracinated from its Jewish identity.
Deracinated from their creative hinterland, leading lives that have nothing to do with a 'community of neighbours', these professional writers become better and better at conducting their lives as 'writers', less and less in touch with the world that sparked their imagination in the first place.
Deracinated from function or context, familiar objects and his own identity are equally drafted into the abstract universe he is mapping.
But instead of enjoying the unstinting support of their non-Muslim colleagues, the Muslim liberals find themselves routinely berated in the highbrow magazines and the universities as deracinated nonentities, alienated from the Muslim world.
They wonder whether Buddhist practices really can be extracted from this environment without damage to their identity, whether the Buddhisms to be found in the contemporary west have become deracinated, cut off from the necessary nourishment of their cultural and metaphysical roots.
To collect the artistic riches from the region and put them on display in the Sassi would deracinate them, he argues.
William A. Donohue, the league's president, called discontinuing the cross an attempt to "deracinate Christmas".
It is clearly the work of an unreconstructed artistic radical, but its mood is pastoral, and its action unfolds in a generic, deracinated Europe far removed from the ideological struggles of the recent past, as if Godard, in the last decade of the cold war, had intuited its impending termination.
