There were contract matters, but Johnny also well knew it would have been unwise, with Jack's departing good-bye wave still fresh in bereft viewers' minds, to pop brightly onto his predecessor's stage as the clean-cut but resented new boy.
A novelist who had suffered terrible grief when her mother died told me she was just so bereft that her mind couldn't cope with reading, couldn't concentrate, and that losing the ability to read felt like a double bereavement.
Excluding Chandler and Ross from their digs still brings the Friends theme song to mind; bereft of Frasier's whip-fast dialog, his massive apartment seem almost quaint.
Earlier this month, Will offered a scathing critique of Trump's "disability," writing in The Washington Post that the president has "an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence".
Success, a word that Trump uses frequently, was the theme of his speech, and yet he could hardly have imagined that concept and how it applied to the boys who were listening to him and their place in the world in a more bereft way: kill Obamacare; mind your yacht; fire people who don't deliver, because "we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that".
Bereft of the dog, my mind sought occupation.
Seeing the grieving cow and hearing the bereft bellows angered Temple and turned her mind toward inhumanities in slaughter.
Good of heart, keen of wit, sharp of mind, dressed in tatters and utterly bereft of cash, he brings joy to young lovers and virtue to the greedy.
His mind was addled by the tedium and his body -- bereft of any aerobic work -- was soft.
But much of the forlornness of the frightening spaces in Beckett — the little rooms, the blasted heaths, the madhouses, the ditch in the rain, the country road with its one tree, the little glass jar near the slaughterhouse, and all the sequestered, jesting minds — is that these are sites forsaken by meaning, bereft of sense.
