this essentially deracinated city has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry, which since the 1920s has imported myriads of the most talented writers, filmmakers, artists and visionaries

Deracinated, lonely, struggling to make his philosophy understood in a language that he was just mastering, Adorno took succour

what John Kenneth Galbraith characterized as the “New Class”—deracinated, upwardly mobile professionals, technocrats, midlevel “financial engineers,” new-media makers, and liberal academics

eventually, the thorough deracination of the entire Mediterranean world

populist rage burns through the deracinated industrial centers of the global north as liberal urbanites concentrate in increasingly isolated, privatized, and financialized city-centers

deracinated escapees from an ancient European empire

in a society as deracinated and stripped of tradition and continuity