bearings

Like any number of unsettled heroes from gothic novels, he fears that he is losing his bearings and his sanity.

“Vagrants” is named for a type of bird that loses its bearings and turns up in zones where it’s not supposed to be.

"They happen at a time when people are sleeping and you are unable to get your bearings."

Can they strip an item down, replace bearings/change gearbox ratios for example, or is this considered a replacement?

Humanity could recover its moral bearings and pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and the renunciation of war, or accept the inevitability that such man-made forces would ultimately abolish most or all of us.