Unmoored

The word unmoored comes to mind, right before I start thinking of all the pop songs about everything and everyone being all right. ❋ Jonathan Segura (2008)

Since Paglia herself has been among the most vocal champions of "popular culture" among academics and intellectuals, the essay can almost be read as a kind of apology for her own excesses in encouraging us to "become unmoored from the mother ship of culture," or at least as an expression of second thoughts about her own possible collusion with the powers that be in the academy in "subverting" literature and the fine arts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Media figures seemingly unmoored from the moderating influence of superego, revealing cheerily oblivious chauvinism (Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann) and impressively mettlesome candor about gender bias (Couric, Campbell Brown). ❋ AJ Rossmiller (2010)

The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Urso: completely unmoored from the actual text and context of heremail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The final showdown, like many other dramatic moments in the novel, recalls similar scenes in countless adventure novels; and Parris's dialogue - courtly one moment and modern the next - often seems unmoored from the novel's era ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We've simply never seen someone so completely unmoored from the normal requirements of national office before. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The critical distinction I wanted to make here seemed, to me, productive: Romantic psychiatry needed to be historical and cultural, whereas Romantic psychoanalysis, unmoored from the materialisms of psychiatry's early history, needed to be theoretical. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She has a guarded enthusiasm for MFA programs; the book, in part, is a criticism of where some of the MFA program culture has gone astray, as if some writing workshops have become unmoored from the literary masterpieces that inspired them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The whole point about characters having the potential to escape "into eternity", to become unmoored from the straight-line track from cradle-to-grave as Platonic forms which can be (re) incarnated elsewhen and elsewhere, therefore, is to raise the question: is the whole idea of binding one's self into a graving -- of concretising one's identity, fixing it as an essential "soul" in order to make this immortality possible -- an artificial hobbling? ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Roughly (and with many intermediate steps) I think that the drift is: Symbol of the Confederacy (treasonous), Symbol of Rebellion against intrusive Government (somewhat unmoored from the specific rebellion), Symbol of General Southern Rebelliousness (think Dukes of Hazard). ❋ Unknown (2002)

It’s clear the discussion has become far more wide ranging and is completely unmoored from the actual text and context of her email. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The visual effect of so many migrators "unmoored" is, if not stunning, sobering .... to the birds at least. ❋ Unknown (2007)