Sentence examples for roots of identity from inspiring English sources

Ms. Merkel, who was recently married, has also been through what an old friend from the east, Michael Schindhelm, now a theater director in Basel, Switzerland, called "this strange loss of roots, of identity, of context -- this experience of a cut that forces you to define yourself anew".

"The root of identity is often through a town; names matter".

A lzheimer's is the pathological version of our culture's obsession with memory as the root of identity, an ailment for an age teeming with memoirs.

It is the root of identity, envy, destiny, and confusion, as it is transformed first by the breakup of the plantations, then by the cotton gin, and finally by urban sprawl.

"When speaking about Emirati identity, we have to look back at the roots of our identity and realize that the Emirates is a crossroads of trade and cultural exchange," Ms. Dhaheri said.

Mordecai Richler, the cranky and combative Canadian novelist and critic whose sometimes ribald writing exposed the heart of Old World Montreal while skewering bourgeois ambition, the roots of Jewish identity and the Quebec separatist movement, died yesterday in a Montreal hospital.

"Lubbock knew they were the roots of British identity.

My fixation over getting to the roots of my identity was probably a projection of my own boredom with who I am.

French sports newspaper L'Équipe wrote that it "took the classic from such events and had fun with them" whilst Le Parisien said it "was magnificent, inventive and offbeat drawing heavily on the roots of British identity".

It is perhaps unsurprising that an artist from Alexandria, Egypt, even in an age of 3D avatars, might reach back to the roots of national identity and cultural heritage to a time when the tombs of the Egyptian nobility were supplied with what are the oldest marionettes known.

These and other experiences in Ghana demonstrated Angelou's maturity, as a mother able to let go of her adult son, as a woman no longer dependent upon a man, and as an American able to "perceive the roots of her identity" and how they affected her personality.