The rootless cosmopolitan now had roots for the first time in his life.

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She grew weary of the rootless life.

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Even the prose is weirdly rootless: the multicultural argot of global VIPs who spend their lives at 35, 000 feet.

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And then there are the engineers themselves, a rootless but engaging brotherhood that travels the world from rack to rack, helping to keep the electronic show on the road, and whose interactions and dealmaking does a lot to shape the geography of the electronic spider's web that now engulfs the planet.

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Yet once they chose to leave the Bantustans, they had no choice but to become rootless nomads, wandering the rural reaches in search of someplace anyplace to settle, legally or otherwise.

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In the past, a more rootless people were prepared to leave Hong Kong in search of a better life.

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Rootless but well-paid mercenaries could do the dirty work backed up by state-owned high-tech wizardry in the air.

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Thousands of angry, rootless, young Somalis are proving vulnerable to the attractions of fundamentalist Islam in the guise of al-Qaeda and similar jihadist brands.

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Yet in Chi's sad life lies the experience of a Viet kieu, of any immigrant: a constant search for self, a rootless wanderer looking to belong.

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