"bereft of reason" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone or something that has lost the ability to think logically or to act rationally. For example, you could say, "The once-vibrant town was now bereft of reason, its inhabitants defeated and disheartened by years of economic decline."
To be bereft of reason, like a baby or a squirrel, is to be morally innocent.
"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason," the head of North Korea's strategic forces said in a statement.
North Korea mocked President Trump's "fire and fury" warning Thursday, calling the president "bereft of reason" and his comments "a load of nonsense".
"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," the KCNA statement says of Trump.
This is extremely getting on the nerves of the infuriated Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA Korean Peoplee's Army).... Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him.
They threw millions of people out of stable and comparatively well-paid work into infrequent, badly paid temporary jobs or trapped them in towns suddenly bereft of any reason to exist and with no jobs to apply for (intriguingly, this is a position that Norman Tebbit, a Thatcherite outrider interviewed in the book, seems to have some sympathy with).
In answer to Mr. Bush's criticism of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, the agency said North Korea "can never pardon anyone who dares slander its political system, though he is a man bereft of elementary reason or a politically backward child".
In the 21st century, there is no reason to show the world bereft of female presence.
Perhaps the pressure of global competition, mixed with the responsibility of representing four years of athletes' gruelling training schedules, is the reason why so many Olympic songs are totally bereft of fun.
The reason for this may well be that the insurgents are bereft of mid-level leadership enabling them to carry out complex operations.
Bereft of genuinely juicy players.
