deracination

• “What you call deracination among the Hebrews, Eric Voegelin calls the "leap of being" from a cosmological civilization, in which deities are embroiled in the physical world, to a civilization based on transcendance, in which the deities are beyond time and space.”

  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe

• “At least, Brown will put the deracination which is bothering you in a little better context than you seem to present it.”

  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe

• “The latter can be understood as the way the work points to that which is absent, specifically in the case of Detroit the sense of community dislocated as a result of the ravages of capitalism, the lack that registers the social, economic, and political deracination whose residue is emphatically apparent in the postindustrial wasteland of Detroit.”

  The Huffington Post: Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit

• “Part of correcting the aberration in Syria's situation -- before the uprising against the regime -- is to stop the deracination of Syria from the Arab belly to be offered an ally of Iran and used as an Iranian card against the Gulf -- all for the purpose of extortion, in order to ensure the survival of the regime.”

  The Huffington Post: Raghida Dergham: Turkey and Iran's Tug on Syria

• “Dracula's threat, Stevenson argues, is not mere miscegenation (the mixing of blood) but deracination, for Dracula's sexual partners become pure vampires, with loyalties to Dracula, not Britain.”

  The Huffington Post: Mikhail Lyubansky: Are the Fangs Real? Vampires as Racial Metaphor in the Anita Blake and Twilight Novels

• “McWilliam, whether she knows it or not, is always fighting a greater loneliness: the loss of her mother, the break with her father, her deracination (she misses, in her bone marrow, Scotland, and I don't blame her).”

  The Guardian: What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam

• “You could see it as the deracination of the tradition, or even worse as a deliberate omission of cultural context in its appropriation.”

  Yo Mama's So Fat... - Anil Dash

• “Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.”

  Measuring fresh, luminous, visionary power

• “In a letter to Leonard Woolf, she describes treason as an act of deracination; it is "the root of all our human misery --- the desire to frustrate ourselves, not to be what we are.”

  Ariel Gonzalez: The Meaning of Treason

• “The Trillings were often criticized for deracination and for the betrayal of the Left that marked their staunch anti-Communist position of the 1940s.”

  Diana Trilling.

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