Perhaps it was because he felt rootless now that the affair with the Duchess was over.
The popularity of his book and television series roots may indicate that large numbers of Americans feel rootless.
That's because it's a transition period and people feel rootless.
Bliss, for all the love and training Three Oaths and his family had given her, felt essentially rootless.
"If you have no temple in the community, you feel rootless."
But it has made people feel rootless.
Just as Ryder feels rootless, the people sense that their city has lost its soul, and they seek to recapture it through modern music.
They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation.
Most of all she felt rootless.
I felt rootless, lost in these dales.