unmoored

Yet he must have felt unmoored, on his own in a strange land.

It is the expression of a society unmoored, with respect to the world and its past.

Or am I, too, no longer able to distinguish common sense from unmoored meaning?

When accompanied by others, his singing often can be affected and unmoored.

Unmoored in time and place, the book has the elliptical quality of a dream.

The Chicago years, from this unmoored viewpoint, would have a strong tone of living in the past to them.

If the experience initially leaves you feeling unmoored, I recommend just going with the tide.

They are lost, and in their unmoored state, unable to empathize, to connect.

Other fans across the city were feeling similarly unmoored as the Yankees continued to fall further behind.

By contrast, skepticism about global warming is a position unmoored from reality.

They got in, the boat heaving beneath them, unmoored and pushed off.

Fabric from overhead has come unmoored and hangs in the driver's eyes.

But there was always something unmoored about Smith.

She felt as if all gravity were gone and, unmoored, she was about to float away.

Several are told in such an elliptical manner that their characters seem unmoored from motivation.

Jay's diction also feels slightly unmoored from the present.

No fish, either; the net was unmoored in the fracas and dropped back into the ocean.

The squadron under my command are unmoored and I shall put to sea immediately."

Without such props, his narrative timing comes unmoored.

The Darlings' struggles to find a balance in an unmoored world carry some real eloquence.

Although the play is unmoored from recognizable reality, it casts its own incantatory spell.

We don't know yet whether the transition will liberate us or leave us unmoored.

Indeed, the image of an extraterrestrial, unmoored in an unfamiliar land, infuses the performance.

Unmoored, he yearns to be a part of the emotional ecosystem there before moving off, probably permanently.

The whole city puffs up like a sail, a boat dancing unmoored, ready to float off.