Sentence examples for bereft of purpose from inspiring English sources
"bereft of purpose" is a correct phrase in written English
It means to be lacking or without purpose or direction. You can use this phrase whenever you want to describe something or someone as being without a clear goal or aim. Here is an example: "After losing his job and going through a difficult divorce, John felt completely bereft of purpose. He didn't know what to do next or where to go with his life."
Contriving somehow both to dawdle and to rush, "Murder on the Orient Express" is handsome, undemanding, and almost wholly bereft of purpose.
Bereft of purpose, he goes home to Tooting to find that Sylvia appears to have been having an affair with the next-door neighbour, Mr Sparks.
With his life bereft of purpose, he decides, one last time, to return to the desert, "where there was nothing but fierce, searing love".
"The government is running on empty privilege, bereft of purpose," Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president of the Center for Policy Research, wrote in a scathing indictment in The Indian Express.
Evolution itself is utterly bereft of design, purpose and meaning; its engine is undirected, random mutation.
Ignore your initial instinct to feel sorry for the writer-director of Yoga Hosers, a film about teenage convenience store workers who fight monstrous talking Aryan sausages bent on world domination, which Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus describes as "undisciplined, unfunny, and bereft of evident purpose".
That rejection is true to the spirit of Quadrophenia and Townshend's tale of Jimmy the Mod, an angry, angst-ridden early 1960s youth hooked on amphetamine-fuelled fights on Brighton beach, yet bereft of identity and purpose.
We were bereft -- of love, of purpose.
Like their party of choice, they have helped sustain a presidency bereft of decency or larger purpose, a narcissistic cult of personality drenched in paranoia, self-indulgence, and self-pity.
A woman who, like her country, is now notably alone and with no immediate answer when she is asked where she wants to go, Maya is spent and hollow, facing an unknown future bereft of the clear and unwavering purpose that has driven her for a decade.
Journalism's self-conception is, fortunately, being bereft of its gatekeeping function.
