unmoor

All of this economic uncertainty can leave you feeling unmoored.

He's alienated from normal human interaction, which unmoored him from reality.

Trapped at the center of the action is a character that bears more than a passing resemblance to the author: an emotionally unmoored upper-class kid who goes by the nickname El poeta — the Poet.

Moseby doesn’t enter the story with any sort of idealism and yet he is still unmoored by just how cynical, sordid and despicable the world he is drawn into turns out to be.

For a band of freshly unmoored 50-somethings, these may be realistic feelings to dive into, but convenience is the only appropriate word for Burns’ scenarios.