Mr. Vollers said they were the words of a bereft young man named Steven P. Truesdell.
In the key role of the childless Baker, Mark Hadfield has yet to communicate the warmth that would draw us into the plight of so eventually bereft a man.
Now the area wears the familiar aspect of the war-ghetto: the shop-fronts smashed in, the streets bereft of men of working age (many are now in jail), and seemingly no administration at all (the ward leaders are also in jail).
Byzantine troops marching towards Transylvania through the territory east of the Carpathians encountered "a land entirely bereft of men" in 1166.
But, like many of Rhoda Morgenstern's outfits, it also reflected nostalgia for the 1940s, a time when women, bereft of men away at war, defined themselves by their work and their sisterly solidarity.
What, then, can we expect of modern man, bereft of the idealistic and intellectual qualities of the Founders, bereft also of their unique laboratory for experimenting?
For six months in 1996, he lived in a homeless shelter, a broken man bereft of hope.
In the end, a man bereft of political vision was brought down by those estranged at losing their political voice.
One sees an aging man, bereft at the end of a love affair, circling in the orbit of need created by his vulnerable children.
When Scott died, King was probably as bereft as a man of his implacable demeanour could be, but he stuck with it until 2004.
