Word: rootlessness
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...will at least be a basic consistency, and a conscious awareness of how and why he deliberately chooses to vary the course, to avoid this shoal or take advantage of that prevailing political wind. Then policy-making ceases to be an exercise in the abstract, or a matter of rootless, drifting pragmatism. Intellectual discipline returns to it, and arguments once more have a focus and coherence that give edge to the process of public debate...
...voice rings out over an expanse of synthesized whooshing, as a ghostly chorus of deep Bowie-voices echoes every word and moan. A song like this suggests Bowie is not at all rootless, but almost pathological in his self-inspection, picking through the bones of his past work in a frantic attempt to piece together his own skeleton...
Within 40 minutes the battle was over. Eighteen paintings had been mutilated and burned; four painters were under arrest. The infectious spores of bourgeois formalism, carried by Jews and other rootless cosmopolitans, had been sanitized; the integrity of the official style of Socialist Realism stood vindicated...
...American who openly professes compassion for the Palestinian people and recognizes the need for coexistence and mutual trust. "I feel almost a kinship with the Palestinians," says Rabbi Schindler. "The role they are playing in the Arab world is not unlike the role of the Jews in the world: rootless wanderers...
...those early years, young Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps...