Bryter Layter featured three beautifully arranged instrumentals – Introduction, the title track and Sunday – although with only 10 songs to pick here it seemed profligate to plump for any song bereft of Drake's vocals.
A family grieving its six-figure inheritance will not be any less bereft for knowing that losses may also have been suffered by the heirs of the singer and composer John Denver and the motion picture legend Irving Thalberg.
The production doesn't require much of Flórez dramatically – other than to wander around looking anguished and bereft – any more than it does of Amanda Forsythe's brittle, gold-lamé-suited Amour, or Lucy Crowe's slightly petulant Eurydice.
"We're bereft of any [Food and Drug Administration] approved therapy for any primary mitochondrial disease, [and we're] always searching," says Peter Stacpoole of the University of Florida in Gainesville, who has long cared for patients with these conditions. .
The description is uncharacteristically bare of any reference to God having said or done anything and likewise bereft of any biblical citations to fill in the lacunae.
It's art that's bereft of any soul.
He was emotionally withdrawn and appeared bereft of any social sensitivity.
Nothing, but to leave the United States bereft of any knowledge about Iran.
There just is a constituency out there that wants to be entirely bereft of any responsibility.
Masters' problem is that he's so utterly bereft of any appealing qualities at all.
