(And "deracinated" feels to me more like a removal of cultural specificity, not a removal of racial characteristics.). From Wordnik.com. [I Ain't No Other] Reference
The new "inter-nationalism" is the sinister product of a generation that has grown "deracinated," that has lost its roots in the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
He knew that to leave the island would be to become deracinated. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
She, like so many, is so deracinated that she doesn't know who she is. From Wordnik.com. [Sex: Not the answer but definitely the clue] Reference
For black readers, deracinated black characters still render us invisible. From Wordnik.com. [I Ain't No Other] Reference
The increasingly deracinated news media cycles the story through and shrugs. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue)] Reference
But the world is bigger, both temporally and spatially, than the deracinated West nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Elizabeth Hardwick understood both sides of what it means to be deracinated, because she was not. From Wordnik.com. [On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)] Reference
He racially deracinated himself by choosing the name "Bobby" rather than his given name "Piyush.". From Wordnik.com. [Why racial attitudes that helped Barack Obama will hurt Bobby Jindal.] Reference
But posing as a pure, deracinated, Champion of Universal Peace and Love is far from "facing hard truths.". From Wordnik.com. ["We're going to stay in Iraq to get the job done so long as the government wants us there."] Reference
It is these notions of identity that are hardest for deracinated, liberal economists to take into account. From Wordnik.com. [The Parental Wish List: What's Missing?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
In our deracinated, fractured society, Mom and Dad might get a divorce and refuse to let Grandma see their kids. From Wordnik.com. [Grandma Goes To Court] Reference
It is a haven for the deracinated, who grew up elsewhere and found their way there, to make an imitation of home. From Wordnik.com. [New York State of Mind] Reference
They live on a plain white canvas or paper, abstracted from all natural or human surroundings — deracinated, alone. From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Hothouse] Reference
If you want to know why the PN phrase sticks in the craw of a deracinated Northerner, let me posit an alternative view. From Wordnik.com. [What on earth is a ‘professional Northerner’?] Reference
His film examines a malaise that's been plaguing the affluent, deracinated middle class since the suburbs were invented. From Wordnik.com. [What 'American' Dream?] Reference
For his first forty years, his worldview had been dominated by California, and when he abandoned it, he was deracinated. From Wordnik.com. [The Rescue of John Steinbeck] Reference
English socialist intellectuals he argued were nothing less than a deracinated class cut off from the mass of the public. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell and Patriotism] Reference
Eva Green speaks with the rounded vowels and slightly deracinated politesse of a news anchor on some generic European satellite channel. From Wordnik.com. [Green Goddess] Reference
It's an undeceived devotion to place and particularity that is admirable, and almost astonishing, in our increasingly deracinated culture. From Wordnik.com. [Drawn to New Orleans] Reference
But when you read the documents merely as examples of persuasive writing, you find that they are almost entirely impersonal and deracinated. From Wordnik.com. [Sotomayor and judicial minimalism] Reference
Only in the deracinated White West is that considered weird or some kind of sinful mentality that must be purged from one's soul and society. From Wordnik.com. [Are we seeing an ugly racial edge to the Clinton campaign?] Reference
But is there tension between the apparently deracinated interests of the cosmopolitan reformer speaking political truth to the Irish people, and the. From Wordnik.com. ['A nation or a world': Patriotism in Shelley] Reference
But Dalí's deracinated glamour does earn my grudging respect. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
What once was derided as Main Street "Babbitry" has entered a coercive and deracinated stage. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The stateless typically are not free-floating, deracinated individuals, moving aimlessly around the globe. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Since our nation's founding, application of the Commerce Clause has been deracinated from its original intent. From Wordnik.com. [Blogger News Network] Reference
Laura Whitehorn, and wife Bernadine Dohrn-were so deracinated that their names had long since been Anglicized. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
They are deracinated narcissists who live in a policy bubble and are detached from the values and interests of Middle America. From Wordnik.com. [Lone Star Times] Reference
In this sense they were "pacified", and the pro-British leanings of most of them were suppressed, thus my "deracinated" comment. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
They seek to remake the world into an unremarkable mass of atomistic, deracinated individuals incapable of collective resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD] Reference
New York's rock music world is so deracinated right now that A&R cretins have slunk into the cracks and recesses of every micro-scene. From Wordnik.com. [New York Press] Reference
Such deracinated forms of mysticism remain oddly superficial precisely because they draw no nourishment from the great exoteric traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Commonweal Magazine] Reference
What are we, the the last generation of Anglo-Saxons; feminized, deracinated, and passively apologetic for our World Building Civilizations?. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Their ancestors did n ot come here voluntarily; they were deracinated from their native cultures, and, as a result, resiliently created a new one. From Wordnik.com. [The Absorbascon] Reference
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