Word: rootlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic, grinding relentlessly, without selectivity or point of view, through a rootless and episodic life from adolescence...
Most importantly, I have come to realize that I am not unusual, that I need not feel like the only rootless nomad. Instead, I have become my roots, all of them. By having many, it is my daily interpretation which matters. Next time, perhaps Rachel could ask instead, "How did you get here...
...Owadas wanted their daughters -- Masako has younger twin sisters -- to "have some solid base to stick to," says an immediate-family member. "The parents wanted them to avoid becoming rootless people. It was simple things, like customs and observing traditional Japanese festivals...
...Substance of Fire pitted a father against his children for control of a New York City publishing firm. The End of the Day mocked the morality of success in tradition-bound London and parvenu Los Angeles. The new work, drawing on themes from its predecessors, depicts rootless, placeless people connected only to corporate life...
...narrator's mother and father died in a car crash when he was young. Left without either of his own, he was always attracted to other people's parents, insinuating himself upon those of his schoolfriends. In time he befriends his in-laws. The moment that this rootless orphan achieves stability in marriage, he is introduced to a couple which epitomizes his dilemma. His wife's parents are two opposites: the father, Bernard, is a rational humanist; the mother, June, a fervent, unquestioning Christian. In their youth, both had been dedicated communists, eager to change the world with their backpacks...