unmoor

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

Wind and space were banished; the world floated like an apple in a tub, and the mind of man, which had been unmoored also, once more attached itself to the old beliefs.

which further unmoors a young man who desperately wants his family's recognition.

Ross successfully unmoors the Paris Commune from the mythologies of Leninist-Marxist communism and French bourgeois republicanism; unfortunately Ross also unmoors the Paris Commune's political imaginary from its roots in Proudhon's and Bakunin's thought and, more importantly, the working-class, libertarian milieu of the Commune.

GETTING LOST IN VENICE, they say, is half the fun--and it's precisely the appeal of the Venice Biennale, which, at its best, upends our established coordinates and unmoors our points of reference.

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos wrote these lyrics for her 1999 album "To Venus and Back." Years later, she has turned her attention to a fairy tale in which the inability to cry is what unmoors a girl from her life on the ground.

when the strike's for more, when the stress unmoors the ribcage.

Semiramis, scandalous in the literary tradition, represents for Christine a feminine potential "unbounded by law at its most radical, originary foundation"; her story "unmoors motherhood, and the power of procreation, from its engagement in the traffic in women" (84).

It matters very little to know where, exactly, a hue has been deepened or scale warped; it matters a good deal more to understand Untitled, 2009, for instance, as a work about representation per se, an image of an alpine pass diagonally bisected by an avalanche that cannily unmoors one's orientation to the snowy picture plane and portrays nature as a kind of mark maker.

Her masterful handiwork unmoors Alice from narrative structure, however fanciful, and pedagogical purpose, however subtle; instead, it positions Alice within an illegible space that, if we follow the artist's gallery statement, represents the unconscious.