(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.
Norm
Definition:
(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
(6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
(7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
(11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
(12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
(13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
(14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
(17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
(19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
(20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.