Sentence examples for rootless existence from inspiring English sources

Given his rootless existence, there was little opportunity to make lasting friendships.

It's a gritty study of the rootless existence of those who have fallen through the cracks in the system.

He practically boasts of growing up as an Army brat, a rootless existence that started near Harrisburg and included stints in France, Germany and Fort Benning, Ga.

Highsmith lived in Mexico during the 1950's before returning to the United States, where she lived a rootless existence, shifting from city to city.

(While the "I" voice in the novel is clearly fictional, there are amusing if ultimately pointless games to be played trying to work out how much of Zafar's ataxic, rootless existence is that of the author).

Women riders, who are often far from home, underpaid or not paid at all, living a rootless existence where the word of their (often male) team manager is law, are in just such an environment.

He still called his literature "proletarian," only his version expressed a sense of terminal alienation, the collateral damage of his rootless, transpacific existence.

Paul Trynka describes Station to Station as "the climax of David Bowie's love affair with Freud's 'magical substance', as well as his definitive statement on his rootless, confused existence in Los Angeles".

Now after four years of a rootless, vulnerable existence, he longs to return home.

In a rootless world, they offer a sense of belonging.

It was the vehicle for a cycle of rootless creation myths.