Sentence examples for bereft of substance from inspiring English sources

While Vowell's take on Hawaii's Americanization is abbreviated, it's never bereft of substance — her repartee manages to be filling, her insights astute and comprehensive.

As predicted, it was a day full of media releases, a day awash with spin but bereft of substance, and the start of a run of up to 20 days of filibustering.

IN THIS chat with Ezra Klein, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, offers a pandering defence of agricultural subsidies so thoroughly bereft of substance I began to fear that Mr Vilsack would be sucked into the vacuum of his mouth and disappear.

I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Without it, we feel bereft of meaning and happiness.

But that was Clinton's campaign for you, bereft of principle and pathologically concerned with "optics" at the expense of substance.

The speech itself was thin on substance and largely bereft of originality.

Men of substance, every one.

Bereft of genuinely juicy players.

Thus was Miletus bereft of its inhabitants.

Saddam Hussein is bereft of allies.