Florent's message to bereft New Yorkers is to accept change.
It was just bereft of new ideas and had nothing to say about the future.
The days when bands, bereft of new ideas, would use their second or third album to create a stadium-sized sound seem to be over.
After all, didn't he finally have Democrats in control of both houses, a rising economy to take the heat off his $26.2 billion budget proposal, and a Republican opposition largely bereft of new ideas?
As one Marxism Today editorial put it, the Labour party and the trade unions were "profoundly wedded to the past, to 1945, to the old social-democratic order … backward-looking, conservative, bereft of new ideas and out of time".
Speaking to an estimated 10,000 supporters at an outdoor rally in this rural town near Des Moines, Mr. Obama lampooned Mitt Romney's just-concluded Republican convention as heavy on criticism of the president, bereft of new proposals and stuck on ideas of the past.
The big question is how, in 2008, have we come to a point that Microsoft is so bereft of new ideas and innovation that what was once the most important keynote speech of the year turned out to be a complete dog?
Democratic leaders, in a stark assessment of the coming two years, say their party is bereft of obvious new leaders and threatened by divisive ideological battles as it struggles to determine how to deal with the new Republican dominance in Washington.
Mostly, however, the return of Mr Abe's ghost suggests a party bereft of ideas, new talent and principles.
Despite the difficulties over the annuity caused by the devaluation of 1811, the years 1813 14 were profitable ones for Beethoven, although nearly bereft of significant new works, for Beethoven's creativity had fallen precipitously after the romantic crisis of 1812.
And so, for this and other reasons, the tourists clustered on this peaceful landing, some holding a hand, others snapping a picture, most of them staring out at the new, bereft Lower Manhattan skyline.
