deracination

Devastation followed by deracination for many survivors was proving too difficult to bear.

English is very much an onlooker rather than a participant in life, his fundamental condition one of deracination.

In Kisangani, he encountered a young Indian businessman, whose deracination was striking.

Her own deracination came after she had graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1938 and had taken a master's degree there in 1939.

Many Native Americans are bitter about the deracination that took place at the Indian boarding schools, and the experiences suffered by children taken from their families.

But this deracination fueled a questing compulsion to explain why Europeans were unable to understand, communicate with and ultimately live with each other.

"I say 'Jewish' because of their tradition of rational skepticism; and also a certain deracination appeals to me and their openness to European culture."

As it does for so many in the alternative-country audience, this sense of deracination no doubt plays a part in Harris's search and reverence for musical authenticity.

The "deracination" of the title refers to the necessity of "deracinating," or "rooting out," the ideological "guarantees" that structure our responses to events both personal and political.

Her subject in the collections, as she has put it, is "displacement, deracination and movement - and the kind of distortions that happen when this movement is going on."

Personal tragedies, including the suicide of her mother, have left the speaker in these poems with a permanent sense of deracination: "Home is still / a tidal flat, unbuildable."

Forced migration (also called deracination - originally a French word meaning uprooting) refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region.

On reflection I mused on the process of deracination of the working class that has occurred over the last few decades.What do these gang members,thugs, feral youths want?

With a cast of some 70 obsessed, vengeful characters, this wild, mordant novel grapples with the cruelty of a nation founded on the deracination of American Indian culture.

The fact that the magazine is only moving from the north to the south side of 43d Street does little to alleviate the sense of deracination that seems to have enveloped the entire staff.

Scott B. Vickers quotes Susan Harjo "the use of any stereotype in the portrayal of Indians is considered ... to be contributory to their dehumanization and deracination."

While appreciative of liberal modernity's "victories - emancipation, science, toleration, reason, pluralism, rights," his attack probes the vulnerable underbelly of its "vices - alienation, deracination, nihilism, meaninglessness, anomie."

The over-riding common assessment is that we feel as if we have observed the deracination of our economic and political rights and we are attempting to understand the proximate causes of these tendencies.

The felt ephemerality of the prose was a marvelous way of suggesting the central character's deracination, something a city like Naples, in its mixture of blistering light and timelessness, can do to a person.

Detractors of the program also argue that considerable resources have been wasted in settling people who have not been able to move beyond subsistence level, with extensive damage to the environment and deracination of tribal people.

Gone is the callow fondness for the climate of war, and the automatic urgency it bestows on the young writer; instead, all urgency is in favor of simple belonging rescued from a world of deracination.

At 13, he moved to England and made a gastronomic start to the lifelong deracination that is both the kernel and shell of his art: "I was serially, gluttonously, irredeemably unfaithful to all those chapatis-next-door waiting for me.

And because she appears so serenely firm of will and lucid in her objectives, she becomes an oracular spokeswoman for what Mr. Foote is saying about the perniciousness of deracination in an urbanized society and the importance of staying on speaking terms with one's past.

Bea may have changed her name from Nachtigall to Nightingale - the easier for her rough male students to pronounce - but it is Marvin, by way of Princeton and marriage to the high-WASP Margaret Breckinridge, who is hell-bent on deracination.

The two writers are at opposite ends of the Soviet spectrum - Mr. Rasputin, whose fiction sensitively depicts the cultural deracination of the Russian countryside, is a conservative Slavophile and Mr. Okhudzhava is an anti-Stalinist liberal; but neither of them has much time for fiction these days.