deracination

Example Sentences

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It’s really Felicity who functions as our protagonist, as we witness her dogged, creative pursuit of justice, despite all the deracination she experiences.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

For this is not the comedy of deracination it at first seems; it’s a comedy of re-racination, of discovering one’s authentic self by stripping away the disfigurements of ambition.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018

But the recognition afforded by memorials such as Wyoming’s demonstrate the power of a memory that fuels an enduring presence in the face of victimry and deracination.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2014

Photograph: Richard Saker / Rex Features Americanah, wrote Sam Leith in the Financial Times, is "a novel about race and deracination, homesickness, the experience of, and need for, feeling at home."

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013

No child was ever made the subject of a more complete theory of deracination.

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss