(1) That, at least, is the American comedy as seen on TV, in the movies, and in our rather deracinated tradition of standup.
(2) I get a deracinated Kiwi carving a fern in the foam on my flat white.
(3) His tourist-guide zeal is so passionate, you might take him for an exile, a deracinated Lancastrian, rather than for what he really is – an Essex boy, with homes in London and the Cotswolds.
(4) Raskolnikov, the deracinated former law student in Crime and Punishment , is the psychopath of instrumental rationality, who can work up evidently logical reasons to do anything he desires.
(5) Just like any one else, business leaders have a right to a hearing, but they are members of a rarified, deracinated class which persistently – and incorrectly – conflates its own self-interest with the broader economic interest.
(6) And when I read literary novels about deracinated people who operate outside the family unit I just don't get it.
(7) It is just that too much international cooperation has been too technocratic, too deracinated, tending to provoke reaction not partnership.
(8) She never imagined nor expected it to be outside the Co-op.” What follows is a high-octane journey through many touchstones of broken Britain: sexual grooming, vigilantism, ethnic tensions, how education fails those on the fuzzy end of life’s lollipop, how Murdoch deracinated football, how local government autonomy is stymied by Westminster, dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
(9) He returned to England to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1970s, but describes himself as "deracinated".
(10) Denatured and deracinated, the chicken nugget is a symbol of the way we eat now.
(11) I’ve lived on the continent, felt deracinated all my life, get by in three European languages and enjoy encounters that arise from practising them in Britain.
(12) The deracinating process Latin Americans undergo as a result of their migrating to Europe has been occurring approximately for two hundred years now.
(13) In the topsy-turvy chaos of a web world where images and ideas are deracinated, massively projected, manipulated and recycled, Lawson's beachwear has already become iconic – and in a small way, revolutionary.
(14) The study focuses on the deracinating experience effects on the migrants, and how it affects their psychosocial health.
Homeland
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, said after he was briefed on the investigation that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from the one where Obama is staying.
(2) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(3) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
(4) A is for America Vidal described his homeland as the United States of Amnesia.
(5) The author focuses on political and human rights violations, particularly in the Ciskei homeland, in a discussion of the difficulties of blacks in travel, earning a living, farming, and obtaining health care.
(6) Not long before my birth my parents were forced to leave their homeland – my mother from Peros Banhos, my father from Diego Garcia – under orders of their own UK government.
(7) A television link provided questions from Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, pushing him on why he is not visiting his father's homeland during this tour.
(8) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
(9) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(10) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
(11) Opinion was divided: was it a real day, or a meaningless exercise in flag-waving, with foreign troops still deployed in their homeland?
(12) The department of homeland security has controlled the secret service since 2003, when it took over responsibility from the treasury department.
(13) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
(14) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(15) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(16) The homeland security department (DHS) said on Saturday it would comply with Robart’s order, but the justice department later said it was asking a federal appeals court to set aside the order on Friday by James Robart that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban.
(17) State department spokesman John Kirby said on CNN on Thursday that applicants for fiancée visas go through a screening process that includes fingerprinting, a series of background checks and a face-to-face interview while the other future spouse in the US is checked by homeland security.
(18) The attacks on the Pentagon's computer system were described by Dr Sandra Bell, head of Rusi's homeland security department, as "very much a wake-up call".
(19) To Mogulof, Mayer almost believed she could charm the Nazis the way she had once-hypnotized her homeland: The ability to endure suffering while showing a serene and confident face came from years of managing a celebrity status.
(20) They are not going to be cowed by what the government has to say.” Siewert said the Barnett government appeared to have been shocked by the breadth and depth of opposition to the policy, fanned by the prime minister Tony Abbott, describing living in a remote community on Aboriginal homelands as a “lifestyle choice”, and was “casting about to see what will receive the least opposition”.