Still other finds included a black rotary telephone bearing the number CI 8-1296 thad had mysteriously made its way to Brooklyn from City Island in the north Bronx, and a small doll with stringy blond hair and a missing foot — "wounded and bereft in an interesting way," said Ms. Lutz, who keeps the doll on her bed.
Shortly after her affair with theatre director Deborah Warner ended in 2007, Jeanette Winterson found herself repeatedly sitting alone and bereft in the fields near her Cotswolds home.
You will be getting to know these people very well in Mr. Englund's novelistic telling, and this dramatis personae will function as your GPS, a beacon during those few moments when, like one of his men and women, you are confused and bereft in the fog of war.
Later, however, he discovers that his parents and two brothers are dead; soon, he is separated from the boys as well, left to wander alone and bereft in the hostile bush, scavenging for food.
Coco's impotent lover eventually dies of a heroin overdose and her German lover returns to his homeland, leaving her bereft in a city of vanity and desire.
Arty found himself bereft in a strange land.
Another result is that you feel bereft, in a very real sense, if it's not there; the painting is now on loan until next spring.
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While the lyrics are often downhearted and bereft, Mr. Cabic sings them in a gentle, deadpan tenor, sounding matter-of-fact about his estrangement in songs like "On the Other Side," from Vetiver's next album, to be released early next year.
The truth is that the CPA was ill conceived and bereft of detail (in terms of land ownership involving coveted oil, infrastructure and constitution).
