Sentence examples for feeling of rootlessness from inspiring English sources

The family's frequent moves, combined with a burdensome dual heritage, left Kerouac with a lifelong feeling of rootlessness, which contributed to his reluctance to give or accept romantic love, and undermined every promise of domestic stability.

Those changes may have prompted in Ms. McCartney feelings of rootlessness.

She likens a freshman's mixed feelings of rootlessness and control to that of an adoptee.

Others succumb to feelings of rootlessness and chaos, the hazards of dislocation.

We Are Nowhere and It's Wow spends a lot of time on these feelings of rootlessness and newness.

I read these words, and recall exactly the feelings of rootlessness accompanying my grief in the days after my father's death when I was 13.

Steinke recognizes that her feelings of spiritual rootlessness have their origin in authority — the commanding authority her father wielded when he wore the cloth, and his utter lack of authority when he divested himself of it.

"There was a profound shift in my identity and viewpoint, and I was overcome with a feeling of uncertainty and rootlessness".

Rootlessness often goes along with a feeling of restlessness, driving some third culture adults to keep moving from one place to another without forming long-term commitments.

You can see the same initial attraction to European lifestyles: sex and drugs and alcohol and partying; the same sense of rootlessness, of feeling neither one thing nor the other; the same influence of a radical imam and the seeking out of Islamist tracts on the internet; the same global sense of Muslim victimhood.

Now, at 45, Chalayan still feels shaped by a sense of rootlessness.