Example sentences for: rootless

How can you use “rootless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That sounds a little like Ronin , which has won rave reviews for its poker-faced depiction of rootless professional assassins (among them Robert De Niro and Jean Reno) who get double- and triple- and quadruple-crossed and come to question the meaning of their existence.

  • Gabler combined a squishier communitarian criticism ("it may be too simple to say that rootless malleable communities ...

  • give rise to rootless malleable children with little identity of their own, save the identity borrowed from mass culture, but it may not be too far off, either") with his media monism: Identitiless teens play "Doom" on the PC, then try it out in the enhanced 3-D perspective of real life.

  • In general, controls should be imposed to prevent panic rather than conspiracy, and the investors who panic are, if anything, more likely to be respectable bankers and wealthy domestic residents than nefarious rootless cosmopolitans.

  • Worse, they're selfish, rootless cosmopolitans--sorry, they're selfish "moral illuminati" pursuing their own vision of individual "authenticity," of "unbridled self-assertion," at the expense of family and group ties ("the intricately reciprocal character of a life lived within community").


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