"We're trying to convey the idea of loving the tree even if it's uprooted".
As he did so astutely in earlier novels, Mr. DeLillo depicts an America in thrall to celebrity, technology and the mass media, a country afflicted with paranoia and confusion, a country in which there are no limits to the power of money, and "violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore".
Yet "the more it is uprooted from its native soil, the more accolades it receives in the mainstream art world," he adds, a paradoxical kind of success.
When the waters rise it is uprooted and refloated.
The bush was half-green, half-brown, and looked as if it was uprooted from the ground.
What really distinguishes this telling, then, is how it's been uprooted it from its Old Testament underpinnings.
"Right now, it appears Mr Joyce is uprooting the lives of nearly 200 specialist staff and their families for his own political purposes," the Greens agriculture spokesperson Janet Rice said.
Rosie's college, Goodricke, was my college too – it has been uprooted from its original site and rebuilt here on Heslington East, the Center Parc-like jewel in the crown of a university that has clearly changed, and quite a lot, since the early 1980s.
Capitalism has to blossom before it can be uprooted.
It can be uprooted only with the help of radical reforms.
