Sentence examples for bereft of a single from inspiring English sources

For this was a land caught on the hop between cultures and identities, bereft of a single dominant tradition, compelled to make itself up as it went along.

The censors work diligently; the news-stands are bereft of a single genuinely reformist newspaper, though anyone with anti-filter software can surf the anti-government sites.The frenzied brutality of the second half of last year, when arrests took place in the hundreds and many dissidents were killed and tortured in custody, has given way to a duller repression.

Students in grade school have grown accustomed to "remixing" internet sources to create their research reports, copying a line from here and a line from there into a massive kludge of plagiarism often bereft of a single original thought.

Their Zapruderesque exegesis looks at the device from all sides, ensuring us that I will be bereft of a single thing when I line up tomorrow at the mall in order to be one of the first to own the strange, distended trackpad known as the Magic Trackpad.

The memorandum is bereft of even a single citation to case law or evidence.

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Unlike the other statues on the monument, stonemasons carved Canada Bereft from a single 30 tonne block of stone.

And although their built-in stopgap measure won't single-handedly save the reefs, he says, "it shows they're not hopelessly bereft of a way of coping".

"This is bombs and bullets bereft of a political strategy".

The experience is like an "Iron Chef" battle with bodies, sadly bereft of a special ingredient.

Despite the precarious economy, Italian politics appeared all but bereft of a functional opposition.