Sentence examples for bereft of the ability from inspiring English sources

I walked down Vanderbilt Avenue towards my house, sweaty and bereft of the ability to echolocate.

And Emmis's maneuvering has been so aggressive and clever that Mr. Smulyan and the company can choose to leave the preferred shares outstanding, bereft of the ability to influence Emmis or require it to pay a dividend.

As for the French, a nation whose entire rugby pedigree was forged on speed and attacking rugby, they seem almost bereft of the ability to play such a game.

The closest he gets to anything like strenuous analysis is to entertain dazzling thoughts about not being able to believe his luck; he is so incurious, so bereft of the ability to think of his wife as a complete person, that he thinks of her experiences as his own.

Living in Ibiza means living on an island with incredible scenery and a vibrant summer, but it also means spending winters aching for culture or entertainment, worried about the security of your job and bereft of the ability to hop on a train or a bus anywhere beyond a few towns away.

Most of his American films are also bereft of the earlier social concerns that defined his Czech films, although he clearly demonstrated his mastery of the craft of direction and showed a remarkable ability to work with actors.

Bereft of the dog, my mind sought occupation.

New Orleans, bereft of the corpse, built a monument to Davis.

The latter part of the novel sags a little, bereft of the colorful Papa and Mallory.

With most journalists barred, Syria is bereft of the coverage that helped drive Tunisia's uprising in the early days.

But the area is still largely bereft of the beavers that once populated its small streams.