What is "rooted"

Usage examples of "rooted".

Larssen cried out, firing as he stumbled backward, while Brast stood in terror, feet rooted to the ground, his arms clawing at the darkness.

Every successive revolutionary disturbance in Naples saw a recrudescence of brigandage down to the unification of 1860-1861, and then it was years before the Italian government rooted it out.

Thirdly, the doctrine of a judicial metempsychosis was most profoundly rooted in the popular faith, as a strict verity, throughout the great East, ages before the time of Plato, and was familiarly known throughout Greece in his time.

If, as seems fairly straightforward, a woman can unconsciously contribute to patriarchal institutions and act in accordance with ideologies rooted in misogyny, it stands to reason that a male writer might challenge sexist ideas without setting out on an ideological crusade to do so.

Whenever he rooted himself in a meadow of buttercups and poppies, or amidst purple monkshood and the peering, sightless faces of field pansies, or within sight of sweet pink clover and tufted violet vetch and sunny ragwort, it appeared at first that here was simply a gratuitous explosion of loveliness, to daze the bees and butterflies.

She felt color rush to her cheeks, and stood rooted to the spot, held by mortified anger.

Lalji took his time answering, watching as the mulies rooted for the last of their calories.

Even if there was a shift in the movement of creation, such as the overshadowing of one symbol, Napoleon, by another, Rothschild, more rooted in the money-dominated society of the second half of the nineteenth century, the core of the idea remained perfectly clear to the reader.

The expressivity of this cross-purpose speaking is rooted in a painful, parodistic contrast with real dialogue, which it removes into the Utopian.

Christa had smiled ironically at the term and had blistered out a lead break that had rooted the dancers to the parquetry and turned them around to watch the woman who was making such music.

The calculation of these properties, which necessarily transcends the perturbative framework, has played a central role in driving the progress of the second superstring revolution and is firmly rooted in the power of symmetry.

Not a single one proved a winning number, but the popular belief that numbers given by a man before he commits suicide are infallible is too deeply rooted among the Neapolitans to be destroyed by such a misadventure.

I thought, if Mike Viners was right about all our dreams and neuroses being rooted in the activity of psychotropic DNA, domestic or alien or both in collaboration, what difference did it make where the ultimate source of my trouble lay?

They had rejoined Anna by this time and found her standing as though rooted to one spot, with an expression upon her face that seemed to say not all the powers of darkness and the Quartier Montparnasse combined should cause her to budge from it.

Halldor sail around Scattery, are all pagan survivals rooted in Irish folklore.